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n my last President's Call in the March Shipmate, I speculated that I might not have another chance to communicate with you in an additional edition of our alumni magazine. I am happy that I have the opportunity to speak with you once again, because it gives me a chance to introduce my relief to you.

As many of you have heard by now, our new President and CEO is George Watt from the Great Class of 1973. I could not be more excited about the search committee's unanimous selection and nomination of George to lead our Alumni Association into this century. He has been a member of the Alumni Association since graduation, is a life member, and a member of the President's Circle. George has departed Charlotte, NC, with his wife, Peg, and family to join us in Annapolis. He leaves his former position as Senior Vice President and Managing Director of the Enterprise Business Solutions Group for First Union Corporation. George comes to Annapolis with great personal desire and love of our great school and the Alumni Association. In my interview with him, when I asked why he wanted to leave his very prestigious position with First Union, he replied "Because I want to give something back to our great institution."

After graduation, George was a Surface Warfare Officer, serving in ROARK ( D E - 1 0 5 3 ) before transitioning to aviation.

He became a Naval Flight Officer and served with VP-5, performing antisubmarine warfare missions throughout the Atlantic. Upon leaving active duty, he remained active in the Naval Reserve, holding several command positions, retiring with the rank of captain.

In the private sector, in addition to his role as a Senior Vice President at First Union, George has held several important positions with IBM. Those include Principal, Business Transformation Services for IBM Consulting Group,

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Consultant to the Area General Manager, Account Executive/National Account Manager, Advisory Marketing Representative, and more. He brings a wealth of business experience, energy, and devotion to the missions of the Naval Academy and the Alumni Association. I know you join me in welcoming George and his family to Aimapolis and wishing him much success in leading our Association.

Let me again thank you for your great support over these last three plus years and ask you to continue supporting George Watt and the mission of the Alumni Association, which remains serving all of our alumni and supporting the Naval Academy.

I want you to know that departing the Alumni Association as your President and CEO at this time and in this manner was not in my game plan. I had hoped to stay on as President for several more years, but that was not in the cards. I was looking forward to helping Admiral Ryan raise the bar of excellence at the Naval Academy. His Strategic Plan is a visionary blueprint that will guide our Academy into a bright future, and maintain her preeminence as one of the finest institutions in the world. I urge you to give George Watt the same fine support you have given me, as he helps Admiral Ryan ensure the future of our beloved Naval Academy.

In addition, I regret stirring up the controversy over this year's ballot by my HUGE mistake in not looking at the ballot with more scrutiny. For that, I accept full responsibility and blame. I ask you to put all of the hubbub the ballot issue created behind you and to get on with the task of supporting George Watt and the mission of the Alumni Association.

You all have made my job exciting, fun, and fulfilling. I trust you will do the same for George. Farewell and God bless all of you, the Nation, our Armed Forces, and our great school.

Ron Marryott

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year are Invited t o submit proposed research projects and programs of study for evaluation. Midshipmen selected t o participate are afforded an unusually exciting educational experience, and there has been a gratifying response t o the program.

The number of scholars selected has ranged from a low of three t o a high of sixteen, with seven scholars in the Class of 2000.

Each Trident Scholar's academic program for the year Is modified t o substitute research courses and a thesis for traditional courses within the major. Each scholar has one or more Naval Academy faculty advisors who are well acquainted with the field of study and who serve as research mentors t o the scholar. Scholars may request t o have scientists and area specialists from neighboring laboratories o r universities serve as consultants for their research efforts, and in some cases, the scholars may travel t o nearby facilities such as the Naval Research Laboratory o r the National Institute of Standards and Technology, t o use equipment not available at the Naval Academy. A Trident Scholar Committee, made up of faculty members with special interests In scholarship and research, administers the program under the guidance of the Director of Special Academic Programs and the responsibility of the Academic Dean and Provost.

As the fall semester draws t o a close, each Trident Scholar submits an interim report, describing the project background and results obtained thus far, t o the faculty advisor(s) and t o the Trident Scholar Committee. In April of the spring semester, each Trident Scholar presents the results of his or her research in a final written report, a lecture at an Academy conference, and by participating In a poster session prior to a formal dinner.

Trident Scholars frequently present their research results at local, regional and national meetings of their discipline. Several are co-authors with their faculty mentors on presentations, refereed journal articles and patents. Many are awarded graduate scholarships, with some of the recent scholars accepted t o Cambridge University, England, and Stanford University.

StatisticallyTrident Scholars are highly successful in their naval careers. More than 30 of the previous Trident Scholars with the requisite years of naval service have been promoted t o the rank of captain and seven have attained flag rank. ^L

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• 12th Company • Major: Physics • Hometown: Hudson, Ohio • Trident Project Title: Tracking Near-Earth Asteroids • Fall: Squad Leader • Spring: Platoon Commander in 12th Co (2 stripes) • Member: Pi Sigma Pi (President); National Eagle Scout Association (for all 4 years at USNA); Semper Fi Society; Midshipmen Group Study Program (for 2.5 years; Physics Leader: 1 year) • Honors: Golden Key National Honor Society; Supt's List (2 semesters); Dean's List (7 semesters) • Worked with Asst. Prof. Debora Katz-Stone (Physics Dept.)

• Will present his work at the American Astronomical Society meeting in June 2000 in Rochester, NY • Recipient: Marine Burke Scholarship • Accepted: Georgia Institute of Technology • Service Assignment: U.S. Marine Corps, Pilot

• 10th Company • Major: Aerospace Engineering • Hometown: Reidsville, North Carolina • Trident Project Tide: Computational Study of Wing Drop on a F-18E/F in the Power Approach Configuration • Fall: Company Academic Officer • Spring: 2nd Battalion Operations Officer (3 stripes) • Member: Tau Beta Pi (VP) American Institute of Aeronautics Association (AIAA), Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Midshipmen Group Study Program (for 3 years; Chemistry Leader: 2 years) • Honors: Golden Key National Honor Society: Elected to two honor societies: Tau Beta Phi and Phi Kappa Phi • Worked with CDR Robert J. Niewoehner '81, USN (Aerospace Engineering Dept.)

• Collaborators: staff at the Naval Air Systems Command at Patuxent River, MD, the Navy's F/A-18 Program Manager, and staff at the NASA Langley Research Center in Langley, VA. • Presenting his work in May 2000 to ADM Dyer at the Naval Air Systems Command at Patuxent River, MD. • Co-author: article in the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Conference Proceedings Accepted: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Recipient: Draper Fellowship (to MIT) Navy Burke Scholarship Service Assignment: Navy Pilot

M I D N i/C Jonathan Joseph CERRITO • 8th Company • Major: Systems Engineering • Hometown: Alpharetta, Georgia • Trident Project Title: The Application of a Neural Network Control System to a Ship's Power Grid • Fedl: Squad Leader • Spring: Brigade Chief of Staff (5 stripes) • Member: Offshore Sailing Team, varsity sport (skipper and tactician); Golden Key National Honor Society (Vice President); Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society (Secretary) • Honors: USNA nominee: USA Today All-USA College Academic Team for 2000; Carl S. Vinson Leadership Award • Worked with Asst. Prof. Edwin L. Zivi and LT George D. Doney '92, USN (Weapons and Systems Engineering Dept.)

• Collaborators: staff scientists at the Office of Naval Research, the NeuralWare company and the Energy Systems Analysis Consortium • Presenting his work: International Association of Science and Technology for Development (lASTED) Modeling and Simulation Conference in Pittsburgh, PA, in May 2000 • Co-author on the lASTED proceedings article • Accepted: University of Cambridge ) • Recipient: Marshall Scholar • Cox Fund: 4-weeks French Language study in Nice, France • Internship: Naval Attache at the American Embassy in Paris • Service Assignment: Navy Special Warfare, UDT-SEAL

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M I D N l/C W i l l i a m Murray MATHIS Jr. • 27th Company • Major: Mechanical Engineering • Hometown: Houston, Texas • Trident Project Title: Quantification and Modeling the Effects of Thermal Shock on Pressure Transducers in Internal Combustion Engines • Fall: Squad Leader • Spring: 6th Battalion Executive Officer (3 stripes) • Member: Catholic Midshipmen Club • Catholic Eucharistic Minister • National Eagle Scout Association (for all 4 years at USNA) • Coach and Player: Brigade Championship Intramural Flag Football Team 1999 • Honors: recipient: Michael Smith Memorial Sword (awarded by the Texas Gulf Coast Alumni Association in honor of Challenger astronaut Michael Smith '67) • Nominated: Mechanical Engineering Subject Award (awarded by USNA Mechanical Engineering Department (winner not yet known); Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honor Society); Pi Theta Sigma (Mechanical Engineering Honor Society) • Worked with Asst. Prof. Paulius V. Puzinauskas (Mechanical Engineering Dept.)

• Collaborators: Technical Support Division staff in Rickover Hall • Will present his Trident research work in October 2000 at the Society of Automotive Engineers Conference in Baltimore, MD • Co-author of a proceedings publication for the Society of Automotive Engineers • Accepted: University of Texas at Austin (for Mechanical Engineering in the Applied Research Laboratory) • Service Assignment: Navy Pilot

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• 12th Company • Major: Mechanical Engineering • Hometown: Stafford, Virginia • Trident Project Title: Detecting Compressor Failure Using MEMS Technology • Fall: Company Academic Officer and Squad Leader • Spring: 3rd Battalion Commander (4 stripes) • Member: American Society of Mechanical Engineers (Pres); Phi Kappa Phi (VP); Tau Beta Pi (Con-esponding Sec'y); Phi Alpha Theta; Pi Theta Sigma (VP); Golden Key National Honor Society; Midshipmen Group Study Program (for 2.5 years; Physics Leader: 1 year) • Honors: Supt's List (every semester); Dant's List • Honor Societies: Phi Kappa Phi; Tau Beta Pi (Engineering); Phi Alpha Theta (History); Pi Theta Sigma (Mech Engr); Golden Key • Worked with Asst. Prof. Sheila C. Palmer and LCDR Daniel T. Ray '86, USNR (Mechanical Engineering Dept.)

• Collaborators: staff scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST): Building and Fire Research Laboratory • Recipient: Pownall Scholarship • Accepted: University of Cambridge (Pownall Scholar), Corpus Christi College • Service Assignment: Submarines

• 30th Company • Major: Systems Engineering • Hometown: Tulsa, Oklahoma • Trident Project Title: Multiple Aperture Camera System • Fall: Squad Leader • Spring: Brigade Academic Officer (3 stripes) • Member: USNA Debate team; Dolphin Club; National Eagle Scout Association (for all 4 years at USNA); Golden Key National Honor Society • Honors: 1999 Golden Key National Honor Society Scholarship Award; Rhodes Scholarship Candidate, State of Oklahoma • Worked with Assoc. Prof. Carl E. Wick (Weapons and Systems Engineering Dept.)

• Presenting his work in April 1999 in Virginia Beach, VA, at the 53rd Meeting of the Society for Machinery Failure Prevention Technology • Graduate school: Computer Engineering, Stanford University • Service Assignment: Submarines

M I D N l/C|ustinA.SARLESE • 13th Company • Major: Physics • Hometown: FuUerton, California • Trident Project Title: Development of a Semi-empirical Model for Single Event Upsets in Modem DRAM Devices Induced by Radiation • Fall: Platoon Commander (2 stripes) • Spring: Squad Leader and Company Drill Officer • Member: Dolphin Club; Mountaineering Club • Honor Societies: Phi Kappa Phi; American Physical Society; Phi Alpha Theta (History); Golden Key • Undergraduate Research Award from the USNA Physics Dept • Full Scholarship to the American Physical Society's Nuclear Physics Conference: to present research results (in Monterey, CA) • Worked with Prof Martin E. Nelson (NAOME Dept.)

• Collaborators: staff scientists at: Boeing, IBM Corporation, NASA, Naval Research Laboratory, Harvard Cyclotron Laboratory, University of Colorado, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Triangle University Meson Facility • Worked on two research projects at USNA and one at Los Alamos National Laboratory • Co-author of three publications (one finished; two in preparation) • Presenting his research at the Hardened Electronics and Radiation Technology Conference in Anaheim, CA, in March 2000 • Recipient: full scholarships to: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Dept. of Nuclear Engineering) • Accepted: The University of California, Berkley, and Cornell University • Service Assignment: Submarines

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Professor Robert Shelby, winner of the Excellence in Teaching Award, has been a faculty member at the Academy for 35 years. In that time, he has taught almost every physics course in the curriculum. He personally developed several key course sequences for the core curriculum and for physics majors.

With all his developments, "Professor Shelby is best known as a classroom innovator," Miller said. Advancements he brought to the classroom include peer tutoring, computer-facilitated group instruction, and an online, computer-assisted tutor for the basic physics course.

Dean Miller said that the professor's enthusiasm exemplifies his love of teaching and his excitement over being an integral part of the Naval Academy's lejuning environment.

Professor Judith Dr. Shelby received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the Harrison has been on the University of Texas at Austin and his Ph.D. from The CathoHc Unifaculty at the Academy versity of America. for nearly seven years. In The Professor Theodore J. Benac Civilian Faculty Award for Exthis short time she has cellence in Teaching is presented annually to the civilian faculty membuilt a national reputaber at the Naval Academy tion as a superlative synwho has exhibited continthetic chemist. She has ued excellence in teaching published 37 scientific and sustained contribupapers in the finest tions to the intellectual descholarly journals in the velopment of midshipmen. world, including a cover The award consists of two story in Scientific Ameriplaques, one for the indican. She has presented vidual and one placed on more than 50 papers at permanent display at the national and internaNaval Academy, and a cash Dr. Judith Harrison tional conferences on the prize provided through an analysis and synthesis of endowment by the USNA Class of 1951. diamond wear-reducing coatings on bearing surfaces. She is scheduled to present at another seminar this summer.

In 1998, this award was "In addition to her research accomplishments," Dr. Miller said, renamed in honor of Pro"Professor Harrison is a dedicated teacher who is well-liked by stufessor Theodore J. Benac, dents and faculty." an ebullient individual Upon completion of her B. A. at Saint Anselm College and her Ph.D. with an infectious laugh at University of New Hampshire, Dr Harrison conducted post-docand a great love for mathtoral research at Duke University and the Naval Research Laboratory ematics and the midshipDr. Robert Shelby in Washington, D.C., before coming to Annapolis. men he taught. He taught The USNA Alumni Association Civilian Faculty Award for Excelat the Naval Academy lence in Research is presented annually to the civilian faculty mem- from 1 July 1941 until his death on 9 November 1997, an incredible ber at the Academy who has exhibited the highest quality, continued 56 years. Dr. Benac served as Mathematics Department Chairman scholarly achievement through research. The award consists of two from 1976 to 1982. In 1989, he was named the outstanding Teacher plaques, one for the individual and one placed on permanent display at the Naval Academy. The following year. Dr. Benac was named the at the Naval Academy. A cash prize also is provided by the Naval Outstanding Teacher in the State of Maryland. Dr. Benac served as Academy Alumni Association.

Grand Marshal for the academic procession at all Naval Academy Each year, the winner of this award produced significant results graduations from 1972 to 1997. through original research and publication. The results of this research Each year, the winner of the Benac award is someone who has have furthered the accomplishments of the Naval Academy's mis- demonstrated the abilities to inspire midshipmen to high levels of sion by assisting the intellectual development of midshipmen and academic accomplishment and who has improved the level of classhave increased significantly the fund of knowledge in his or her field room instruction at the Naval Academy, -l of scholarship. he Naval Academy recently announced the winners of two prestigious academic faculty awards. Dr. Judith A. Harrison, Associate Professor of Chemistry, was awarded the USNA Alumni Association Civilian Faculty Award for Excellence in Research. Dr. Robert N. Shelby, Professor of Physics, was named the recipient of the Professor Theodore J. Benac Civilian Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching.

"Both epitomize the type of teacher-scholar we attract to this wonderful place of learning," said Academic Dean and Provost William C. Miller '62.

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"A sense of duty, commitment, a love for and an understanding of n about six weeks, approximately 1,230 of our nation's brightest and most talented young people will travel to Annapolis the Naval Academy and everything it stands for, along with a will from all 50 states to begin their four-year journey here at the Na- ingness to make a difference in shaping a student's future are the key val Academy. When these young men and women raise their right ingredients we look for in a Blue and Gold Officer," states Director hands and take their oath to join the Great Class of 2004, a lot of of Admissions, Captain Rick Hammond '75. "OurAlumni make super dedicated people across the United States will share and experience a BGOs, and we are especially looking for those who graduated in the 1980s significant sense of pride in the fact that they, in a meaningful way, and '90s to volunteer to support this important program." played a role in shaping not only a new class but, also the future The selection and training of our Blue and Gold Officers is treleaders of the Navy and Marine Corps. The Naval Academy Informa- mendously important; a high school student's only exposure to the tion Officers—Blue and Gold Officers as they are more commonly Academy may very well be through their BGO, so it is critical that referred to—are the more than 1,600 dedicated individuals who freely our volunteers are well-versed on current admissions procedures and volunteer their time and effort to identify and assist the talented young Academy policies. The preliminaries are easy—the Academy's Admen and women who apply for admission to missions Office coordinates a variety of trainUSNA. Blue and Gold Officers are the key to ing activities that actually commence by mail. the success of our annual recruiting efforts. They Contacts within Admissions Our Naval Academy Information Program help the admissions staff select the best qualiManual summarizes the fundamentals that proC A P T Ricic i-iammond fied men and women who will carry on the naspective BGOs need to know about admissions. val service's tradition of excellence beginning rhannmond@nadn.navy.mil Several reading packets and a simple take home on each Induction Day. test complete this step and qualify the volun410-293-1844 teer as a Blue and Gold affiliate—ready for adExperiencing a one-third annual decline in ditional training as personal and professional service applications over the past 15 years, the LCDR Paul Bradfieid schedules permit.

Office of Admissions cannot just sit back and bradfield@nadn.navy.mil wait for applications to roll in the door. An agEach July, the Admissions Office sponsors 410-293-1822 gressive marketing and recruiting program is formal training at the Naval Academy (volunmoving forward and, according to Dean of Adteers choose one of two five-day training sesMr. Don Nelson missions, Dave Vetter USNA '67, "...we are sions) that expands upon the basic training dnelson@nadn.navy.nnil reaping the rewards of the hard work of our admanual. At each session, approximately 90 Blue 410-293-1849 missions team, both here on the Yard and around and Gold Officers receive the latest admissions the nation." "But," as Dean Vetter notes, "...we information from key staff members, as well as must continue to be pro-active and harness all an update on Academy issues, policies, and proof the tremendous energies that are available to us in promoting the grams. While the daytime training sessions are both intensive and exceptional opportunities that exist here at USNA." comprehensive, each evening provides the opportunity for BGOs to The Blue and Gold Officers (BGO) are the "eyes and ears" of the visit attractions in Annapolis and Washington, D.C. Admissions Board. Providing invaluable insights into the background "New Blue and Gold officers are both welcome and needed," states and character of our candidates, Blue and Gold Officers offer signifi- Captain Hammond. "We are always looking for graduates who can cant inputs that cannot be gleaned or captured on application forms, easily step into a BGO role, especially in communities where the transcripts, and personal statements submitted on behalf of the can- Naval Service does not have a strong presence." didates. In many cases, the Blue and Gold Officer reinforces the high If you are interested in the continued high caliber of our USNA opinion of a candidate that teachers, counselors, and coaches have classes of the future, becoming a Blue and Gold Officer might be just already expressed. Just as important, however, the Blue and Gold the way for you to make a difference. Contact any one of the followOfficer may be the only one in the long admissions process to iden- ing: Director of Admissions, Captain Rick Hammond; Head of Cantify the student who may not be ideally suited for a service academy didate Guidance, LCDR Paul Bradfieid; or Assistant Director of Adexperience. This makes BGO evaluations vital to the missions for Plans and Programs, Mr. Don Nelson. All would be glad selection process. to answer your questions and get you started with this highly rewardDoes the system work? You bet! With an average graduation rate ing experience. BEAT ARMY! -l of close to 80 percent annually, the Naval Academy ranks near the top of the nation's first-rate universities for retention! And, the Class Mr. Don Nelson is the Assistant Director of Admissions for of 2000 will shortly graduate and commission about 900 of its mem- Plans and Programs at USNA. A retired Air Force officer, Mr. bers who started four years ago.

Nelson taught History at USNA from 1976-1980, and prior to What does it take to be a Blue and Gold Officer? Are you inter- assuming his current position in Admissions in 1994, he served ested in joining a team of volunteers who have a major impact on in several positions in both the Reagan and Bush Administrawho joins the Brigade of Midshipmen each year? tions. He is the son of Robert B. Nelson '38.

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have been given the opportunity by the Chairman of the Board of the U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association to chair an ad hoc committee, the focus of which is to examine and recommend mechanisms and procedures whereby the Alumni Association might participate and assist the Dean of Admissions and his office in enhancing programs for identifying and encouraging prospective candidates for admission to our Naval Academy. Indeed, the Mission of our Association states, inter alia, that we are to "serve and support the United States, the Naval Service, and the Naval Academy: by seeking out, informing, encouraging and assisting outstanding, qualified young men and women to pursue careers as officers in the Navy and Marine Corps through the Naval Academy."

The challenges to Naval Academy recruiting that demographics and national attitudes present today are enormous.

Competition with our nation's finest colleges and universities for the best candidates is sharply increasing. Experiencing a one third annual decline in Service Academy applications over the last 15 years, the Office of Admissions, supported by its nationwide team of 1,500 volunteer Blue and Gold Officers has doubled its recruiting efforts and can claim only nominal improvements over last year's statistical accomplishments in most areas. An "All Hands" effort is required. It's time to organize the tremendous resources of our Alumni, "BIG TIME," to meet these challenges. Our biggest challenges are to keep our Alumni informed and to get the word out to as many young people as possible on the exceptional opportunities that a Naval Academy education offers and the challenges and satisfaction of a career in the naval service.

The Superintendent and the Office of Admissions strongly support this Alumni Association initiative. Two individuals from the admissions office are on this ad hoc committee. Our task as Alumni, in this regard, is to assist and support the admissions office, not to replace it. We must coordinate our efforts with them. Only informed Alumni can help. We must "close ranks" and coordinate our efforts with the recruiting programs of Chapters, Par-

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ent Clubs and Blue and Gold Officers now working with the admissions office. Some of our Alumni are already involved in these programs.

Our ad hoc committee is already working on ideas generated within our committee and from trustees, class presidents, and chapter presidents. This letter comes directly to you for your input.

I ask you to give this some time and serious thought. We need your help. We need your ideas on how we, as Alumni, and the Association, can increase public awareness of the outstanding benefits of a Naval Academy experience.

Among your ideas please address how we might "turn on" youngsters earlier to the Naval Academy...in junior high school. We want your very best suggestions. Please send us your good ideas. As we proceed we want a manageable list of those suggestions with greatest potential to deal with first. Subsequently, if some additional "nuggets" of advice develop, please pass them along.

Our committee intends to tell you how you can help us by providing useful information on the Naval Academy today and on admissions by means of Shipmate and the alumni Web site: www.usna.com. Stay tuned!

This is not a one-time effort. The challenges to Naval Academy recruiting will continue. Course corrections and refinements will be required.

Please send your suggestions to: Melissa Flores (nnelissa.flores@usna.conn) U. S. Naval Academy Alunnni Association 247 King George Street Annapolis, Maryland 21402-5068 Our Academy is still important to us. The importance of our Academy preparation and experience to our naval and business careers is awesome. We owe it our "best shot" to make a difference in this taxing recruiting environment. I thank you in advance for your efforts. BEAT ARMY! J/

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USNA Rifle Team Prepares for Olympic Trials

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he repetitious popping noise fills the belly of Bancroft Hall.

Here, in between wings 2 and 4, one can find a group of Midshipmen on any given afternoon or evening, practicing a sport that doesn't bring them many spectators and doesn't bring them the same notoriety that other sports on the Yard get. But here, one can find a group of five Midshipmen who are determined to go the distance and determined to give it all they've got. berlyA.Kight, Communications Assistant, USNA Alumni Association

Five members of the U.S. Naval Academy rifle team are in the midst of practicing for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: to compete in the Olympics Trials for the Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. The invitations to the trials came in the middle of their undefeated season. "This is the highlight of my career," said Josh Kelley '00. "It's what I have dreamed about since I was little."

The others on the team are captain Jon ladonisi '00, Tran Lam '01, George Adams '01, and Luke Shank '02. Some of the schools that the rifle team has defeated this season include Army, Air Force, Coast Guard, Penn State, VMI, Villanova, and West Virginia. All five shooters were also named All-Americans by the National Rifle Association.

The Sport The sport of rifle encompasses three areas: air rifle (uses compressed air or carbon dioxide to discharge lead pellets), prone (a shooter may not let the rifle rest against, or touch, any object), and three position (fire rifle from the prone, standing and kneeling positions). The Midshipmen will be competing in all three areas except Lam, who will be competing only in air rifle.

While most of the Olympic shooting events are individual, the team prides itself on its teamwork. "When I first started shooting at the Academy, I did it because I was good and because it was something that I had always done. I stick with it now because of the teamwork and the fact that we are working for the common goal," Kelley said.

Clockwise from top right: team captain Jon ladonisi '00, IVan Lam '01, George Adams'01, Josh KeUey '00, and Luke Shank'02

The Olympics None on the team is afraid to give a truthful answer about the chances of actually going on to the Olympics. ladonisi summed it up by saying, "What to us is a sport is to the other competitors a job."

Adams said, "We're going up against the best in the nation. These are men and women who practice 8-10 hours a day. This is their life.

They have sponsors. We are being realistic when we say we would love to get on the team, but there's a good chance we won't."

In each event, only the two top competitors will go to the Olympics.

There are about 60 individuals competing in each event. All of the five agreed that if they can place in the top 20, they would be happy.

First-year rifle coach Bill Kelley and father of Josh said, "All five of them have the potential to be in the top 10 slots. Do they have a chance at going on to the Olympics? Probably not, but the experience that they get at this level of competition (Olympic trials) gives them a confidence that they wouldn't normally have."

Both Josh Kelley and Jon ladonisi are excited that they get to end their four years on the rifle team with a bang. "We've worked hard, practiced hard, and are proud of what we've done individually and as a team. Yes, we are going to the Olympic Trials, but truthfully, Jon and I are more concerned about finals, papers and graduating," Kelley said.

"You have to remember that our mission here is not to graduate the best rifle shooter, but to graduate the best Naval or Marine officer," said Coach Kelley.

All of the shooters have been competing for years. Some started as early as elementary school, while another didn't start until freshman year in high school. But, all five have one thing in common: they have been practicing 10-12 hours a week since August to get to this point.

Lam, the only woman on therifleteam, said that shooting has taught her patience, persistence and confidence in herself Jokingly, Kelley said of Lam, "One of us guys misses and shoots an 8 and we take it

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hard. Lam shoots an 8 and she shrugs it off and tries again. She keeps us grounded."

When asked what he gets out of the sport. Shank said, "It keeps challenging you. You know you can hit the 10, but the real challenge is how many times in a row you can hit it." ladonisi agreed, adding, "You get immediate feedback from your actions. You also have triumphs and failures all at the same time."

History Competing in shooting sports is not something new to the Academy.

Records indicate that as early as the 1912 Olympic Games (Stockholm), members of the Olympic rifle team included three graduates: Harris Laning 1895, Carl T. Osbum '07, and Harold T. Bartlett '11.

According to the 1908 Luclcy Bag, rifle at the Naval Academy "has established for itself, in a modest sort of way, quite a name for both individual and team shooting. Although not spectacular when compared with football and other forms of athletics, rifle shooting for the competitor, is nevertheless one of the most fascinating of all sports."

The 1908 rifle team ended its spring season in complete victory.

Osbum stands out as the alum who has won the most medals at an Olympic game. He is tied with Mark Spitz (swimming) and Matt Biondi (swimming) as one of three all-time top American medalists, who have won 11 medals each. He is also one of nine great shooters inducted into the U.S. International Shooting Hall of Fame.

According to USA Shooting, the first modem Olympic Games in 1896 included nine sports, with shooting being one of them. Four pistol and two high-power rifle events were included. Since then.

Left: Harris Lanning, Class of 1895, was a member of the U.S. Rifle Team and competed in the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm.

Below: The 1908 Navy Rifle Team, winner of the National Team Match, ended it's spring season in complete victory.

shooting events have been part of all but the 1904 and 1928 Olympic games. The number of events has ranged from a low of two at the 1932 Los Angeles Games, to a high of 21 events in Antwerp in 1920.

Shooting traditionally attracts the third largest number of participating nations of any sport at the Olympic Games.

Willis A. Lee Jr. '08 also starred in rifle at the Academy and in the Olympics. In his Lucky Bag, the staff wrote, "As the star of the Rifle team, (Lee) has covered himself with gloryâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and medals. [He] Wears hom-rimmed specks and swears that he is as blind as a bat, but we think he can hit a fly at 600 yards. Merely as a divertissement, he picked up a revolver at the Perryville match and beat out all the 'sharks.'"

The Future Three of the team will be back in the fall and start practicing for their season in August: Lam, Shank and Adams. ladonisi will be reporting to Newport, RI, aboard STETHEM. Kelley will work as the assistant rifle coach until January, and then report for flight school.

"The hand-eye coordination that I have perfected over the years on the rifle team will be instrumental in my next endeavor. It can help in almost every aspect of the military including being in a cockpit or being a Marine and making split-second decisions," ladonisi said.

Kelley said, "The experience on the team has taught me how to handle pressure situations and know that I can have confidence in myself" Editor's Note: The individuals going to the Olympics in Sydney will be announced sometime in July. Check the USNA Alumni Association Web site (www.usna.com) for results.^I'

Alumni Olympic Rifle Statistics Alumn Carl T. Osbum Class of 1907

Olympics 1912

Team Military Rifle: Gold Individual 600M: Silver Individual 300M: Silver Rifle 50M: Bronze

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Team Military BOOM: Gold 300-1-600 M Military Team: Gold BOOM Military Individual: Gold BOOM Military Team Prone: Gold BOOM Military Team Standing: Silver Run-Deer Team Single Shot: Bronze

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Individual Free Rifle 600M: Silver

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Team Free Rifle: Gold Miniature 50M Team: Gold Run-Deer Team Single: Bronze Team Rifle Prone 600M: Gold Team Rifle Prone BOOM: Gold BOOM Military Team: Silver B00-600M Military Team Prone: Gold

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Grad Trains for 2002 Winter Olympics Harry Jackson '99 has been training with the U.S. Bobsled and U.S. Skeleton teams, in the hopes of making the U.S. Olympic team that will compete in Salt Lake City. UT, in the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Q. Explain the difference between the bobsled and skeleton teams.

A. There are two and four-man bobsleds. I compete in both. In twoman bobsled, there is just the brakeman and the driver. In four-man, there is the driver and the three "push" athletes that comprise the two side push athletes, and the brakemen. We begin the run on a bobsled by pushing the sled down a 50-meter start groove, in which the sled quickly accelerates to 40 kph at the end of 50 meters.

Skeleton is similar to luge with the exceptions that it is head first, not feet first, and that we also begin with a running start by pushing the sled on the same start areas that the bobsleds race on. In skeleton, we race down the mountain head first, with our hands at our sides behind us, approaching speeds of 75 mph with our chins two inches from the ice. Our heads and feet hang over the sled. There are no brakes on a skeleton sled.

Q. What is your status widi the teams? Are you still trying to qualify for the teams or are you already a part of the Olympic team?

A. I am currendy a member of the bobsled team and a development athlete for the skeleton team. The final Olympic teams for both sports will not be determined until the beginning of the 2001-2002 season.

Q. How does the Navy handle your training?

A. r m a recruiter, stationed at the Naval Recruiting District while training in Salt Lake City, UT. During summer training at the Olympic training center in Lake Placid, NY, I'm stationed at the NRD in Buffalo, NY. I train full-time for both bobsled and skeleton.

Q. How did the Naval Academy prepare you for this part of your life?

A. The Naval Academy has given me a solid base of discipline and teamwork required to excel at these sports.

Q. What is your favorite thing about bobsledding/skeleton?

A. The speed. I find it a "msh" as I am traveling 80 miles an hour down the track pulling five G's in the corners of the track.

Q. How did you get involved with the bobsled and skeleton teams?

Q. What is your training schedule like? lA. Last May, I participated in a preliminary tryout for the U.S. Bobsled A. While in season I wake up around 6:00 a.m. and go to the track at I team at the University of Maryland in which I qualified to compete in 7:00 a.m. From 7:00 to 8:00,1 walk the track to inspect the ice condiI the national team selection tryouts in July. During the summer, while tions for that day's training session. From 8:00 to 9:00,1 do work in on leave, I competed in the national team selection trails in Lake Placid, either the bobsled or skeleton sled. Warm-up for the ice-training sesNY, and made the U.S. Bobsled team. After completing an additional sion begins at 9:00. From 9:30 to 10:30, we are sliding in the track.

I camp in August, I moved to Park City, UT, to compete as a member of From 11:00 to 12:00, we conduct further maintenance on the sleds. At ' the U.S. Bobsled at the Winter Sports Park, die site of the 2002 Winter 1:00 we evaluate the training sessions, 2:00 is sprint and weight trainOlympics. During my first month of competition as a bobsled athlete ing which normally ends around 5:00 p.m. in October, I entered the high-performance school for skeleton athletes and later competed in the national team trails for the U.S. Skel- Q. What are your plans after the Olympics? ' eton team.

A. I plan to go to flight school to begin training as a Naval Flight Officer.

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Congratulations to the Class of 2000 as you embark upon your life as Naval Officers. The challenges, triumphs and broadening of horizons that await you are many and diverse. With the many exciting opportunities that lay in store, you will shape the Navy's future for the next decade.

Ensigns and Naval Flight Officers For z36 newly commissioned ensigns, this future involves flying the most modem aircraft in the world in support of Navy operations and exercises. Another 103 will be joining these officers in the cockpit as Naval Flight Officers (NFOs). Together, they will demonstrate the Navy's strength and resolve, flying at the tip of the spear in support of national objectives.

Captain Richard Hammond, the senior Navy Pilot at USNA, describes his thoughts on this class, "Navy leadership continues to recognize the essential role that naval aviation plays in a balanced force...

Pilots and NFOs entering the fleet now can look forward to flying the world's most advanced weapons platforms and making a real difference in the way we carry out national policy. This is traly an exciting time for naval aviation!"

Surface Warfare OWir^rs Serving with the aviators, projecting power and keeping the sealanes free for commerce, will be 253 fellow graduates who will be Surface Warfare Officers. These officers will report to their ships around the world after intensive training at Surface Warfare Officers School in Newport, RI. They will be at the forefront of a new, modem navy, utilizing the latest in digital sea-going equipment.

Captain Lee Geanuleas '77, Director, Division of Professional Development and the man responsible for ensuring the entire Class of 2000 is professionally qualified prior to graduating, says, "I think the future for Naval Academy graduates entering the Surface Warfare community is extremely bright and exciting. The Navy's surface ships have the connection, the connectivity, the computer command and control systems, the long-range precision strike weapons and the theatre ballistic missile defense capabilities which are the fabric of the Net Centrism revolution. I see the Surface Warfare community as the most exciting place to be for a young officer. There is not a mission the Navy does that the Surface Warfare community is not right in the middle of. The opportunities are enormous. Beyond the technology, the leadership challenges in the Surface Warfare community are as good as they have ever been. There is probably no quicker way for a young man or woman to get real leadership opportunities after graduation than in the Surface Navy." \-SiPi!^^^^7'

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Silent Service Supporting their fellow naval officers below the sea will be the 123 ensigns selected for the "silent service." After completing their Naval Nuclear Power and Submarine training pipeline, they will report to their first assignments and deploy throughout the world. After reporting, they will undergo intensive training to eventually wear the submarine dolphins, earning them the right to operate the world's most advance platforms beneath the sea. Circumnavigating the world without detection, they will provide the hidden forward presence supporting the Navy's mission to keep the world safe.

Captain Bill Ostendorff '76, Director, Division of Math and Science stated, "There is a wonderful career ahead for these new submarine officers. With the SEAWOLF and new ViRciNiA-class SSNs, the submarine community will remain a strong force for the future. The research and development funds dedicated to these platforms as well

as others will ensure the force remains on the cutting edge of technology for the 21 St century. The future is bright for those choosing this career path. They will experience the challenges and rewards early on as they start in the community and grow through their careers as each shipboard tour brings a new and exciting role. Some will report to their first ship as a qualified Navy diver. They will also be working with some of the best and brightest enlisted people the Navy has to offer and will take on a key leadership role as soon as they step on board their first boat."

Demanding challenges await the 157 second lieutenants chosen to serve in the United States Marine Corps as well. These officers will attend The Basic School to receive training on the tactics, techniques and procedures inherent to the Marines. From there, they will report to the Fleet Marine Force, serving as this country's 911 force in readiness. Facing many diverse physical and mental challenges from the 3-block war concept to the development of a new generation of NonLethal Weapons, these second lieutenants will grow and leam in ways they have never dreamed.

Colonel Robert Blose, the Commandant of the Marine Corps' representative to USNA says, "These men and women are the Corps' future. They will see the introduction and employment of new systems such as the Advanced Amphibious Assault Vehicle, the MV-22 Osprey and the light-weight howitzer. These will provide our country with an even greater superiority across the littoral battlefield and make the concept of Operational Maneuver From the Sea a reality.

This time in emerging world affairs offers unique opportunities for leadership, personal growth and the most challenging of assignments.

I envy this generation for the challenges that lie before them."

Warfare Communities Additionally, the smaller yet equally vital warfare communities of Naval Special Warfare and Naval Special Operations as well as the Supply, Intelligence, Cryptology, Oceanography and the Civil Engineering Corps communities will receive a bright new crop of enthusiastic ensigns. The diverse missions facing them will continue their education in unlimited ways. They will serve alongside their brethren or with different services, conducting and supporting naval operations world-wide.

The future is clear and bright for the Class of 2000. Great challenges, new cultures, continued education, and personal and professional growth will be the hallmarks of their careers. In this time of rapid change throughout the world, they arrive at a unique moment in history. America will ask much of these officers and they will continue to lead our country and Naval Services to new heights. Our hearts, our envy and our desires go with them as they embark on this new journey. Godspeed and good luck!

Major Kendrick is the Career Information Officer at USNA. He came from I Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF) in Camp Pendleton, CA, where he served as aide-de-camp to the DCG I MEF, Battery Commander and Commander of Troops for Battery B, Battalion Landing Team (BLT 3/1), 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable). He is a graduate with Distinction of Virginia Military Institute, class of 1989 and was a Distinguished Naval Graduate.

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Young lance corporals mn into their drill instmctors in the fleet, senior Marines run into fellow Marines that they've been deployed with, and officers tend to mn into someone they knew at The Basic School.

When Captain Ty Moxey '95 was assigned to Third Battalion, Sixth Marines, he never thought that one of his shipmates during a routine deployment to the Mediterranean Sea would be his older brother.

"When we graduated from the Naval Academy, we went to different services," explained Ty when asked about serving with his brother, Clint Moxey '94. "I never thought it would be possible to be together on the same deployment. It's amazing."

Growing up in Sheridan, WY, at the foot of the Bighorn Mountains, Ty and Clint were active in athletics during their four years at Sheridan High School. Clint ran track for two years and played football for a year, while Ty played three years of soccer for the Broncs.

"I transitioned from wrestling to gymnastics, because gymnastics looked more exciting and fun," said Ty. Both brothers participated in gymnastics for four years and lettered in the sport.

Clint knew after graduating from high school in 1989 that he wanted to fly, but a pole vaulting injury delayed his entrance into the Naval Academy. After attending Sheridan Junior College for a year, he was accepted to the Academy, and left Wyoming for Annapolis. A year later, in 1991, Ty graduated from high school, and accepted an appointment to the Academy as well.

Graduating in 1994 with a B.S. in systems engineering, Clint received orders to NAS Pensacola to start flight school. In 1998, he deployed aboard WASP ( L H D - 1) for six months in the Mediterranean. He also deployed for two months in winter of 1998 aboard

Clint, a Search-And-Rescue (SAR) pilot with HC-8, was given orders to Detachment-6 that was deploying as the SAR Detachment for BATAAN.

Although these two brothers do not work directly with one another while aboard BATAAN, they do see each other quite a bit in the wardroom, in the gym and on liberty. When asked about serving aboard BATAAN with his brother, Clint summed it up by saying, "There's nothing like family when you are out on the boat."

Their youngest brother, Nolan, has followed in his brothers' footsteps and graduated from the Naval Academy in 1999. He is currently a second lieutenant at The Basic School.

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He then reported to First Battalion, Second Marines where he served as a platoon commander, and deployed with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit in 1997. "Upon return from float, I took over as the Headquarters and Service Company Commander, until I moved over to Recon. Battalion," explained Ty. He married Heather Katcharian '92 in August of the following year.

With one brother a Marine infantry officer, and another brother a Navy pilot, their career paths seemingly were at odds, leaving only family reunions as an occasion to get together. So it seemed, until Ty phoned Clint to say he was assigned as the Reconnaissance Platoon Commander for Battalion Landing Team embarked on BATAAN (LHD-3/6). Not only did Ty share the news of his upcoming deployment, but he also found out that Clint had been given new orders and would also be on the same deployment.

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So, it took me several years to leam of them, particularly professional symposia, and give them priority in my career. Since graduating with my fellow '89ers, there have been at least 18 different professional symposia available to me at litde or no cost. Of those, I have attended ten, and I feel qualified to comment on their value and importance to a naval officer's career, starting with their midshipman years.

My experience generally has been tied to those events geared toward surface warfare, and a handful of others with the Navy as a whole. The net result of my lessons is that these symposia broaden and enrich one's career; more so than any day in the office, at the squadron, on the ship, or in the classroom. With the proximity of professional symposia to midshipmen and officers alike, at almost any location in the country, I can think of only rare exceptions to attending these events in terms of their value to our service.

In addition to the grand scale symposia, there are key professional organizations that have periodic meetings and local gatherings that serve as the driving force behind many of the larger events. Organizations such as the Naval Order, U.S. Naval Institute, National Helicopter Association, Surface Navy Association, Submarine League, American Society of Naval Engineers, and the revitalized Tailhook Association, provide essential career eruichment. Knowing the course that your community charts and becoming conversant in the programs and technologies which will shape your tactical decision making, are just the tip of the iceberg. Meeting the leaders of your Navy and community while learning how they are directing their efforts and using their time is also an important aspect of what these organizations and symposia provide. Perhaps the most important, and the bulk of the iceberg—not the best analogy for ship drivers, but it works—is the networking and mentoring that become natural and synergistic in a room full of your peers and immediate superiors.

In early January, while attending the Annual SNA Symposium, I heard scores of great ideas from fellow surface warfare officers and midshipmen. Many of those have been shared directly with the leadership that can institute them. One negadve perception addressed by a midshipman led directly to action by community leadership. Idea exchanges, recommendations, and even commiseration among this coterie lend to bonding and belonging more valuable than that of a wardroom. While building consensus on important issues that need to be addressed, the interaction at one of these gatherings provides an opportunity to meet people you would most like to mentor and be mentored by. These relationships will follow you throughout your career. And, with the advent of email, they can be as helpful and supportive 13,000 •'

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During a junior officer roundtable, a junior SWO asked, "What is the value of my first several years of service when other communities are going through their pipeline training?" My answer is that the value of combining an operational perspective, with involvement in professional organizations, provides the SWO a great advantage over their submarine and aviation counterparts. There is an earlier opportunity to develop community awareness, appreciation, involvement, feedback, relationships, and ultimately, reputation.

If you're a SWO and within striking range of a major symposium, you ought to be there regardless of your daily routine, rank, experience or time onboard.

While I was a midshipman, many of these organizations were in their infancy, too heavily influenced by senior officers and retirees (they can be some of your best mentors, but understandably a youthfully oriented organization appeals more to junior officers and midshipmen), not advertised well, or just plain stale. Times have changed and these groups, now vibrant, can play an important role in charging your professional career from the onset. Whether you are a midshipman or a junior officer, becoming involved and attending professional events is one of the most important things you can do and is well worth your time. The Navy leadership is making these events more available and with your active support, they can become a more common and essential part of the naval career. When the next symposium comes to town, make it a priority!

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And the Alumni Association was there.

In Norfolk, the annual Expeditionary Warfare Symposium had more than 3,000 attendees and 130 exhibitors. In San Diego, West 2000, held in conjunction with the Armed Forces Communications & Electronics Association (AFCEA), drew more than 7,000 attendees and 500 exhibitors. At both shows, the Alumni Association had a booth in the exhibit hall.

Our presence at a "trade show" drew some curious looks. What is an alumni association doing here?

Because San Diego and Norfolk combined account for more than 70 percent of the Navy's combat and support forces, many of our Alumni are there. The symposia offered a great opportunity for the Association to "show the flag" and build a presence among our graduates in the fleet. As important, was that it was a perfect venue to help build awareness for Naval Academy admissions among an audience that is pre-disposed to the Navy. Of the hundreds of people who stopped by our booth, a large percentage wanted to know how they could get their children, grandchildren, or nieces and nephews interested in a career in the Navy and the Naval Academy.

Our presence at the Naval Institute show last October came about in an interesting way. Mike Collins '84, editor of Shipmate, formerly worked as an editor at Proceedings. He mentioned to his friend, Fred Rainbow, Director of Seminars and Periodicals at the Institute, that the Association should display at the Expeditionary Warfare Symposium. The answer was positive, so Mike and Dave Church '67, Director of Alumni Services, headed to Virginia Beach with several boxes of membership information and giveaways, not knowing what type of reaction to expect. With the help of Dan Lear '68 and the Tidewater Alumni Chapter, the Association's presence was a big success.

One of the lessons learned was that many people wanted Naval Academy admissions information.

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Professional symposia, like West 2000, provide our Alumni a forum to exchange ideas and information in a natural area of interest. West 2000 addressed regional communications, electronics and information systems issues with an emphasis on military and spacerelated areas, sea power, and joint requirements. Some of the major speakers included Admiral Leighton W Smith Jr. '62, USN (Ret.); Admiral Archie Clemins, USN (Ret.), former CinCPacFlt; Lieutenant General John E. Rhodes, USMC, Commanding General, Marine Corps Combat Development Command; Mr. John Gage, Director, Science Office, Sun Microsystems; and Admiral Jay Johnson '68, USN, Chief of Naval Operations.

Representing the Alunmi Association was Captain Chip Seymour '65, USN (Ret.), Director of Alumni Affairs, along with Commander Skid Heyworth '70, USN (Ret.), Director of Strategic Programs and Management Information Systems. Among the VIPs to visit our booth was The Honorable Jerry Hultin, Undersecretary of the Navy.

During the two-day event, more than 200 alumni, friends of the Naval Academy, and people interested in attending the Academy, stopped by to visit the booth. The coordinated effort of several volunteers from the San Diego/Coronado Chapter and the Naval Academy Blue and Gold organization helped make the Association's presence a true success. Among those present.

Bob Stevenson '60, Myron Fleming '62, Don Grinnell '61, Jim McNeal '86, and Linda Postenreider '82 (from the San Francisco Chapter) provided support and helped answer a variety of questions.

The two symposia offered the Alumni Association a unique opportunity to meet our Alumni on their home turf, show the flag in a professional Navy setting, and spread the word about great opportunities for young people at the Naval Academy and in the fleet. We are evaluating the lessons learned, the costs, and the benefits from being present at professional symposia, and deciding whether to make a sustained presence. Perhaps you will not be surprised to see an alumni association.. .your Alumni Association, at a trade show, -i.

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We had a young ensign on GREINER who was quite musically inclined and had a splendid tenor. On island liberty, after a few beers, Andy would get us together and lead us in song. He had quite a collection of ditties. At times, our rendition of sentimental favorites brought tears to boozy listeners. USO troupes had not shown up yet.

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n sorting out some of the papers of my father, Admiral Robert B. Camey ' 16,1 ran across the enclosed letter that I thought might be of interest to Shipmate readers. My father was not the commanding officer of FANNING, but the gunnery officer. FANNING was the only ship to captiue a German U-boat in World War I. Sincerely, Betty Taussig To Robert M. Camey, Formerly Commander of the American Destroyer FANNING, who captured the German Submarine U-58: This is the German Submarine U-58, which your Destroyer FANNING tried to sink, but only disabled it through deep charges. After the deep charges exploded near the boat, all of our fuses burnt out on account of the vibration. All machinery fell out. Pumps, deep rudders and vertical rudder, with lights out, caused in about forty seconds.

We had to trim the boat with human ballast and all the crew went back aft; then the boat went straight again and we in the "Centrale" (Control Room) had all the valves set to blow the ballast tanks out with air, which we do only in emergency. After blowing out the tanks, we arrived safely on the surface, but the boat was out of commission, the entire thing happening within about two minutes from the time the deep charge exploded. Then, your ship gave us a couple of shells in our "Conning Tower," which forced us to give up and the Commander from the FANNING told us to make a line fast to our boat.

Certainly we made a line fast, but only to the compass and I went down and opened all of the air valves to let the water in the tanks, and the air out of tanks, and the boat went down like a rock, where it belonged.

Then we all had to decide to jump into the water for our safety, which was no pleasure on a cold day, such as it was, on that memorable day, but thanks to FANNING for the wonderful way in which it saved our officers and crew. We did not know how lucky and happy we were to be captured by an American destroyer instead of an English one, because the English were known to save only one or two officers and a couple of the crew and allow the balance to drown like rats. Two of our crew were lost, but no fault of FANNING.

After our capture by the FANNING we were surprised to receive the nicest enjoyment of sandwiches, hot coffee, hot cocoa and cigarettes Shiomate. Mav 2000

from your ship. The skipper of FANNING had us sit down in our wet clothes; but told us to sing and forget our worries, as we were now safe and the war was over for us, which was a big relief, after two years hard struggle on the submarine. He stated to us that he had no room underneath the deck and we had sense enough to realize this fact. 1 take my hat off to FANNING and its commander, as I feel 1 owe my life to both. And today 1 am glad to say that 1 live in America and am an American citizen.

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ANECDOTES Navy Shoots the Army Ass all 1958—Today was the day! Army-Navy day! We were coming back from morning meal to the second wing, home to the 2nd Battalion. Midshipmen had been preparing all week for "The Game" and we would soon be leaving by bus to board the train to Philadelphia for the big classic. The 15th Company officer was an Army major—all decked out in his Service Dress Blue Army uniform. On his lapel was a button that said "Go Army! Beat Navy!"

As was custom, Firsties sneaked on the elevator to get up to their decks quickly. The rest of us ran up the ladders. Outside of the 15th Company office, a crowd of Mids was forming. The atmosphere was jovial as they gazed upon the decorations adorning the entrance to the office. A larger than life, paper-mache, mule's ass covered the door opening. A large black tail hung down between its legs covering the door. All was in anticipation of "the Major" stepping off the elevator and turning towards his office.

The door to the elevator opened and the Major stepped out. He saw the crowd and turned and looked at his office. A big grin spread over his face as his gaze captured the whole scene. He nodded his approval as the Mids cried out "Go Navy! Beat Army!" Now this was not your average dumb dog-face. He knew that there had to be more.

Being a Company officer at Navy from the enemy camp and a grad of WooPoo, there had to be a catch! Carefully, he raised the mule's tail. Nothing happened. He touched the door handle cuid slowly eased the door in. Again all was clear. Whew! He placed his head close to the opening and peered into his office and what a surprise! His desk was gone and in its place was a naval cannon—1812 vintage. Brass barrel gleaming brightly. The wooden truck was freshly painted—a true work of art. The Major was visibly impressed. He turned and addressed the crowd. He thanked those involved for going to all the trouble of making the decorations; and spiriting the cannon from in front of Dahlgren Hall into Bancroft to his office. He guessed correctly that the Plebes worked all night removing centuries of erosion and returning the weapon to its original state; and he expressed his appreciation that we all would do this for him—the enemy. As he finished, the Mids began to disperse. He turned to the door and swung it open. Kaboom! The cannon roared and billows of white powder filled the room and covered his blue dress uniform. "Go Navy! Beat Army!" echoed through the halls as Mids ran for cover! Once again, cannons, gun powder and electronics made it into the new era!

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T h e Rematch t was a hot July night in 1949 as Jeb Hemdon stepped into the ring tofightme in an inter-battalion lightweight boxing match. We were both Plebes at the United States Naval Academy Class of 1953.

This was the first time I had ever seen Jeb. He was about 17 or 18 years of age, awesome in stature and very muscular, he was about 6 foot 3 with long arms and legs, and hailed from Texas. I was about three years older and a stocky 5 feet 11.1 was raised in a New York City ghetto, where street fighting was a way of life. As a young teenager, I wanted to get in the action of World War II, but I was just a little too young. 1 enlisted in the Navy soon after graduation from high school. After a long, arduous process, I entered the Naval Academy with Jeb and 1,400 other Plebes in June of 1949 as members of the Class of 1953.

My advisor was a Second Classmen named Lowe Bibby, out of '51. He tried to teach me to box, but I was a street fighter with more Emil Di Motta Jr '62 guts than talent. WTien I stepped inside the ropes, I saw this formidable giant opponent staring at me from across the ring. "What am I doing here." I was shaking. When the bell sounded, 1 charged to the The Senior Lieutenant ad died at age 89, twenty years ago after a distinguished career, middle of the ring and threw the hardest right I could possibly throw. which spanned more than forty years. The good ship HAYLER The punch came from the floor and landed square on Jeb's jaw. It stunned him so badly that the referee temporarily halted the fight.

(DD-997) was christened in 1982.

But, he always said that the most rewarding time in his life was When the fight resumed, Jeb was still dazed and could not get his bearings. I just stayed away from him and hoped he would not rewhen he was the senior lieutenant in the Navy!

After World War I, as was true after World War II, promotions cover fully before the end of the fight. The judges gave me the victory on a split decision, probably based on the first round punch. slowed to a trickle or sometimes even came to a full stop.

Many years later, 1 was working as a civilian for the Navy DepartIn the early 1920s, dad's year group was selected for lieutenant commander and his name appeared on the list. But, between the time ment in Washington, D.C, and several Classmates decided to have the list was published and Congress approved the promotions, an alert lunch, among them was Jeb Hemdon and myself. Jeb was in unilawmaker counted the number of lieutenant commanders on active form, a highly decorated senior Marine officer. His presence was duty and then added the number of lieutenants selected. The total awesome, he was about 6 feet 4 inches, maybe 240 lbs., all muscle was more than permitted by law! So then the meticulous soul went and had ribbons down to his knees. As for myself, I was not in the down the selection list and counted the selectees until he reached the greatest shape. His presence was intimidating. We had a great lunch magic total permitted. The rest were crossed off, one name above and talked about the days at the Academy, then the bill came and 1 dad's. There were no more promotions for several years. In the mean- handed it to Jeb with the following comment "pick it up or 1 will time, dad had the immense satisfacfion of knowing—whenever he whip your ass again." The table roared with laughter. As we left the restaurant, Jeb grabbed my shoulder and asked, "Are you ready for saw another lieutenant—that he was senior to the other guy. the rematch?"

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U N I T E D STATES NAVAL A C A D E M Y

U N I T E D STATES M I L I T A R Y A C A D E M Y

U N I T E D STATE.S A I R F O R C E A C A D E M Y

SERVICE ACADEMY CAREER

U N I T E D STATES C O A S T G U A R D A C A D E M Y

CONFERENCE

COMPANY REGISTRATION FORM WHAT IS THE

574CC SCHEDULE IS AS FOLLOWS:

SACQ

The SACC is the Service Academy Career Conference supported by the Alumni Associations from the U.S. Naval Academy (Annapolis) and U.S. Coast Guard Academy (New London) and Associations of Graduates from the U.S. Military Academy (West Point) and the U.S. Air Force Academy (Colorado Springs). The previous conferences have been attended by hundreds of companies and thousands of alumni.

W H O iMAY ATTEND THE

Thursday, September 28, 2000 Interview Prep Seminar

Friday, September 29, 2000 Continental Breakfast:

7:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Registration: Open Session I:

SACQ

All candidates from the U.S. Service Academies are invited to participate. These individuals have learned the lessons of leadership, integrity and time management during their undergraduate years.

These skills have been honed and tested during active duty military service in a fast paced operational environment. The highest sense of personal honor and commitment to getting the job done are common traits among our alumni.

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

9:00 AM - (All Day) 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Lunch (provided):

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Open Session II: 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM Saturday, September 30, 2000 Recruiters may schedule individual interviews WHAT IS THE COMPANY REGISTRATION FEE?

H o w DO I REGISTER FOR 1) 2) 3) 4)

SACQ

Complete the registration form below Submit registration fee (check or credit card) Make checks payable to SACC Mail to the attention of 5^4CC address below

WHERE WILL THE SACC BE HELD? The &4CC will be held at the Westin Seattle in Seatde, WA. To reserve a room, please call 206-728-1000 and request the SACC rare NLT August 15, 2000.

The company registration fee is S3000/lst table, S5000 for two tables and $7000 for three. This fee entitles a company access to the best candidates in corporate America; open sessions to meet with candidates; opportunities for on-site interviews, breakfast, and lunch. For each table registered, a company receives hard copies of all resumes submitted and 14 day password access to the JSARDS (Joint Service Academy Resume Database System.)

PLEASE NOTE: This fee does not cover the cost of your room at the hotel.

If you have any questions please email Sally Fletcher at sacc@usna.com.

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SERVICE

U N I T E D STATES MILITARY A C A D E M Y

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U N I T E D STATES A I R F O R C E A C A D E M Y

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C A N D I D A T E REGISTRATION F O R M WHAT IS THE SACQ

T o PLACE YOUR RESUME ON

The SACC is the Service Academy Career Conference supported by the Alumni Associations from the U.S. Naval Academy (Annapolis) and U.S. Coast Guard Academy (New London) and Associations of Graduates from the U.S. Military Academy (West Point) and the U.S. Air Force Academy (Colorado Springs). The previous Conferences have been attended by hundreds of companies and thousands of alumni.

How DO I REGISTER FOR THE SACQ Send to the 5 ^ C C office NLT August 15, 2000: 1) Complete registration form below 2) Submit S25 registration fee 3) Make checks payable to SACC 4) Send 2 hard copy resumes (1 page/1 side) You will receive a confirmation notice and a definitive schedule a few weeks prior to the conference.

WHERE WILL THE SACC BE HELD?

How

SACC SCHEDULE IS AS FOLLOWS: Thursday, September 28, 2000 Interview Prep Seminar

DO I PARTICIPATE IN T H E J O I N T SERVICE

ACADEMY RESUME DATABASE SYSTEM? The JSARDS is an internet base system. There is no cost to you.

Your resume will receive immediate exposure to companies participating in the SACC and other companies interested in hiring academy grads.

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Friday, September 29, 2000 Continental Breakfast:

The SACC will be held at the Westin Seattle in Seattle, WA. To reser\'e a room, please call 206-728-1000 and request the SACC rate NLT August 15, 2000.

JSARDS

1) First, log on to virww.usna.com 2) Second, click on Career Center 3) Finally, click on the JSARDS link and register under "Academy Graduate Registration". Please register with JSARDS NLT August 15, 2000, to ensure that your resume is viewed by recruiters participating in the SACC. If you have already registerd with JSARDS, please make sure you review your resume by August 15, 2000, to ensure that it is up to date for the SACC. Resumes on the JSARDS automatically expire after 90 days, unless extended by you.

7:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Registration:

9:00 AM - (All Day)

Open Session I:

10:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Lunch Break:

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Open Session II:

3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Saturday, September 30, 2000 Recruiters may schedule individual interviews

If you have any questions please email Sally Fletcher at sacc@usna.com.

5!/4CC

CANDIDATE REGISTRATION FORM

Name (for nametag, no ranks):

USNA Class:

Address: Phone: (Home)

(Work)

(Email)

Resume Category: (see vvrww.usna.com/sacc for list) Will you attend the free Interview Prep Seminar?

Please enclose:

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• Resumes (2 hard copies)

Mail to: SACC' 247 King George Street, Annapolis, MD 21402-5068 USNA Alumni Association 410-263-4448 (Tel) 410-263-9348 (Fax) Email: sacc@usna.com .Shinmate. Mav 2000

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A N O C E A N AWAY From Sailing Ships to Posture Statements

By Captain George Galdorisi '70, USN

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n his Wall Street Journal review of Peter Padfield's Maritime Supremacy and the Opening of the Western Mind, former Secretary of the Navy, John Lehman, pulls one particularly insightful quote from Mr. Padfield's excellent work: "In the unrelenting struggle of peoples, those ascendant at sea have, at least in the modern era, proved consistently successful against those with a territorial power base."

Padfield's book is replete with examples dating back to the Spanish Armada in 1588 and working up through the American colonies' victory over their British masters. It is a victory that both the author and the reviewer ascribe to the power of colonists (and—in time— their French allies) at sea, as well as to the failure of Britain to maintain the maritime supremacy that it enjoyed in the Seven Year's War. Mr. Lehman draws parallels with the modern era—likening America's emergence from the Cold War with clear maritime supremacy only to see it reduced by half to the British experience after the Seven Year's War. He goes on to predict dire consequences if the United States fails to build up its Navy to the numbers required to properly cover our worldwide commitments in peace and in war.

Enter the Department of the Navy's 2000 Posture Statement. The Department's capstone document, it is signed by the Secretary of the Navy, the Chief of Naval Operations, and the Commandant of the Marine Corps. The Posture Statement discusses the Navy's mission, the Naval Services' accomplishments, the direction of the services in the future, and the priorities that must guide the decision making for the Navy and Marine Corps.

The 2000 Posture Statement picks up on some of the themes of Mr. Lehman—one of the primary catalysts behind the Maritime Strat-

egy almost two decades ago. But the Posture Statement focuses our attention in different and more compelling directions and in a more nuanced way than just a call for more force structure.

Chapters One and Two of the Posture Statement recap Navy and Marine Corps operations in 1999 and discuss the overarching security environment these forces must operate in. Chapter Three of the Posture Statement is dedicated to readiness and modernization and leads off by talking about Strategic Manpower. Within this context, the Posture Statement addresses pay package reform, reducing the at-sea billet gap, recruiting, retention, inter-deployment training cycle workload reduction. Department of the Navy education inifiadves, and quality of life—all compelling issues to Sailors and Marines.

Interestingly, the next chapter of the Posture Statement, which talks about the Force of the Future, leads with Navy-Marine Corps integration, signaling a strong commitment to having the two services work even more closely together. This important leadoff is followed by robust discussions of innovation and interoperability as central tenets of the force of the future.

What does this tell us? It tells us that today's leadership has leamed from the past. It believes what Mr. Padfield tells us, but it wisely does not get singularly focused on force structure alone. Instead, today's Navy Department leadership is clearly leading with people— strategic manpower is much more than a beltway buzzword. Leading with people; giving them the education and training to enable them to succeed is "Job One" for today's Navy and Marine Corps.

At the end of this century, historians will write about the impact of the Navy and Marine Corps we are building, training and fielding today. The investment in people we are making is likely to make that chapter the best one in our history.

DECK LOGS CARDINAL ( M H C - 6 0 ) I JAN 2000

VAMMEN ( D E - 6 4 4 )

I JAN 1953 00-04

CDR Pete Dallman '84, USN Assume the watch moored starboard side-to Outboard of oriole to start the millennium new Secured to berth A-5-1 at NavSta Ingleside Tonight, the lines are doubled up just Right. Two lines aft and two lines fore.

Most of the crew has headed to shore.

NavSta Ingleside supplies us with water and Power. The weather is clear, with no chance Of shower ImPACs 1 and 2 give us air. Fire Pump #1 runs without care. Duty section Three is not as happy as can be. For They are here, to start the New Year.

CO has departed the ship. Department heads Soon followed at a fine clip. ENS Marvell Declined to go, probably a good thing, as He's CDO. INCHON is a SOPA in all cases.

Material condition Yoke is set in all spaces Sounding and security reports all secured Watch properly relieved by MNR Hinton M.C. Hargrave EMI (sw)

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Moored to Buoy two-seven, in San Diego, Cal. Fast to port, with standard moor, is the NAIFEH, our old pal.

Four fathoms of our starboard chain to the buoy will hold us true.

While we supply the steam and juice to DE-352.

Our forward plant is running on auxiliary, making steam.

Other Pac Fleet ships and District craft are with us in the stream.

SOPA is Admiral Mardn, Commander, Air Force Pac. Thank God the good old VAMMEN got us over there and back LTJG Theodore A. Curtin '49, USN

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hoosing a major at the Naval Academy is the most important decision in the academic life of midshipmen.

Though actual major selection takes place in March of Plebe Year, Dr. Frederic 1. Davis, the Naval Academy's Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, prepares midshipmen in advance with January briefings to help them make this critical choice.

"Selecting a major in Plebe Year is unusual, but not extraordinary," Davis said. "We are forced into starting the major in Youngster Year because USNA's program is so fully packed. Midshipmen carry about 17-20% more courses and credits than they would at a civilian college. Also, our students don't have the luxury of choosing to spend more than four years to get their degrees."

While the focus of the Plebe briefings may be on the major, it is made clear that the heart of the program is the core curriculum. The core courses are those that all midshipmen must take to prepare them to be effective naval officers and well-educated citizens. The Naval Academy's core curriculum is demanding and technical, with a strong component in mathematics, science and engineering.

The winter briefings show midshipmen the different choices of majors and explain the structure of the majors while highlighting the special opportunities each offers. The briefings also reassure Plebes that their success and service selection don't depend on their majors, but rather on their performance in the field of study chosen, Davis said. A major does not establish a midshipman's path in life.

"This is an undergraduate program. It is not the end of their education. In many cases, advanced degrees are required to enter specialties," he said, noting that many go on to graduate school immediately or within a few years of graduating from Navy. "Naval Academy graduates have many choices after leaving the Academy, whatever

their major," Davis said. In some respects midshipmen's choices of major are freer than their civilian counterparts.

"They need to do some homework to find the major that suits them best," Davis said. "1 emphasize that each midshipman should make a choice that's best for him or her. They should match their own talents and interests to the offerings we have."

For example, Davis says sometimes midshipmen think only about the eventual rewards of completing a certain major. They may fail to take into account what it will be like to "live" that major for their remaining three years of study at Navy. But in general, Plebes do think it through and feel good about their futures.

In determining the fields of study at the Naval Academy, "the needs of the Navy" are a major factor The 1997 "Curticulum 21 report" underscored the importance of Navy's emphasis on math, science and engineering in the core curriculum taken by all midshipmen. Every graduate receives a bachelor of science degree, even if the major is in humanities or social science. Also, the Naval Academy's academic majors are reviewed periodically to ensure their responsiveness to Navy and Marine Corps requirements.

It's expected that 100 percent of the midshipmen will receive their first choice in majors, Davis said. Although there have been quotas in the past and majors have occasionally been oversubscribed, these quotas don't exist now.

A Plebe's choice of major is not irrevocable, and many midshipmen change their minds, but the later the change, the more difficult it is to complete all the required courses, Davis said. "1 don't encourage it, but 1 do accept it and try to accommodate these changes. Most midshipmen give careful thought to their choices and choose wisely," Davis said.

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From Amsterdam to Budapest, along the stunning Rhine, Main and Danube rivers, this is the perfect cruise along three of Europe's most picturesQue rivers. The M.S. EURASMUS is always popular and we bring her back again by popular demand. 16 days/$4S9S (includes air). (Alumni Holidays) Host: CAPT T i m Halliday '69, Chief Operating Officer, USNA Alumni Association

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The Passion Play is only performed once every decade, and we wouldn't dream of missing it. This wonderful itinerary combines Prague, Vienna and Munich and a trip to see the play. Four days in Prague, four days in Vienna, then on to Germany to see the play in Oberammergau and visit Munich.

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We have offered Switzerland in the winter, now see it in the splendor of summer. Stay in the stunning five-star Kulm Hotel in St. Moritz then explore the surrounding areas of Lugano, Innsbruck, and Pontresina. Ride the amazing "Bernina Express" one of Switzerland's picture perfect rail adventures. 9 days/$2495 (includes air).

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The newest Alumni College in Italy—and auickly becoming the most popular. Stay in scenic Sorrento, with day trips to see the Bay of Naples, the Amalfi Coast and the Isle of Capri, while learning the history of this wonderful area. Travel back in time as you visit ruins at Pompeii. 9 days/$2295 (includes air). (Alumni Holidays) Host: Mike Collins '84, Director.Alumni Publications, USNA Alumni Association

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Visit Ubeda and its surrounding areas—Cordoba, Cazoria, Baeza and Granada. See the beautiful and exotic architecture left by the Moors during their time here, plus Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque churches from the Christian influence. The wonders of Spain's history and people come alive. 9 days/ $2300 (Includes air). (Alumni Holidays) From Rochester, N'V, through the lovely Thousand Islands and Prescott, up the St. Lawrence Seaway, will visit Montreal and Quebec City. Spend a morning whale watching near the confluence of the Saguenay Fjord and the St. Lawrence River then discover the seafaring traditions of the Gaspe Peninsula and Prince Edward Island. End with a visit to the stunning Nova Scotia. The perfect late summer voyage.

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A F E W INCHES FROM T H E YARD

By MIDN 2/C Lauren Majchrzak '01 n a inatter of twenty-four days, I will have done itâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;I will have become a Firstie. If you asked those who did detail in the summer of 1997,1 am sure there are quite a few members of the Class of 1999 that thought I belonged at St. John's College instead of the Naval Academy. My constant smile at PEP at 5:30 a.m. was beyond their comprehension, and their patience. I promised myself that year that I would never forget what it was like to be a Plebe, and now here I am, about to embark on the greatest journey of my life, and ironically 1 have forgotten what it is like to be a Plebe. Yet, my smile still lingers.

The time feels like it has been swallowed by a black hole, with only quick glimpses of the past when life allows for reminiscing with ancient old friends.

My Plebe Summer squad seemed like a collection of all the Polish kids at the Academy that Summer, I'm convinced. With a Dmitrukowski, Zawostawski, and a Majchrzak, we almost covered every letter of the alphabet (at least the ones not commonly used on a keyboard.) Luckily for me, having five consonants in a row made me a prime target to all passing eyes. Every time someone would ask me how it was pronounced, I had to laugh. Inevitability this lead to me doing pushups, many of them. I was called everything from "alphabet," to "M-9," to that infamous expression, "Oh, I have heard of you," just upon seeing my last name. Needless to say, it was a long summer, but I wouldn't have traded it for anything in the world.

It is not every day either that one can start a fruit fly colony. It takes true genius and a little luck in combination with one-hundred degree weather and a little amnesia. My squad mates had unfortunately forgotten to remove some fruit packed away in a shoebox for an inspection. Well...three days later, their white shoes at the top of their closet had turned black. Some detailer came in and screamed at them for failing to dust, went to swipe at the shoe, and disturbed about three-hundred million fruit flies comfortably nesting on a great pair of Bates Lights. 1 think we pushed deck for that one. I know I made my tongue bleed attempting not to laugh.

Plebe Summer is a trying and rewarding experience, mixed with camaraderie, and stupidity. One Sunday, we ate cheesecake overnighted from Texas, with our bayonets, did about faces until we were dizzy and wanted to puke, saluted in PE gear, called Ma'ams Sir, and slowly walked away from the person we once were, and built the mold for who we are today.

All of my memories seem so distant now, but are recalled in a blink of an eye with a clarity that makes it as funny the first time as the fiftieth. For me. Second Class year has been Plebe Year in reverse. I wore that red nametag last summer as a detailer, and 1 have watched with earnest those eight individuals whom I helped to mold.

I finally own an expensive piece of gold with a blue stone in the middle, and this month 1 will celebrate with my Classmates the excitement of finally becoming a ring knocker. I will dip my ring in the Seven Seas, forever linking myself to those who have gone before me. My only remaining obstacle this year happens to be finals. A constant internal battle wages: enjoy a beautiful summer day, or stay inside and study. I've often wondered just how much calculus I am going to use in the fleet. Nonetheless, I am determined to put on those Firstie stripes with my Classmates, and offer up a little prayer to God for all that he has given, for his gifts truly are endless.

So, I send off the Class of 2000 with the anticipation of my own graduation and the opportunities that lie before me. From the bottom of my heart, I wish them fair winds and following seas, blue skies with golden suns, and a gift of grace from God on the wings of his angels. To them. Godspeed. And to those they leave behind: Let the reign of 2001 begin.

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A Miniature is no Small Matter!

by Susan Boland

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didn't know anything about The United States Naval Academy when I met Bookie Boland '73, in the summer of 1975. But, fresh out of college myself, I assumed I knew everything I would ever really need to know, anyway. Granted, I was a little bit nervous when 1 was first introduced to his parents, as word was already out that something serious was going on between us. That evening went quite well, and I went on my merry way thinking this was going to be a piece of cake. Then, 1 was invited to meet him in Jacksonville for a weekend to watch the Army-Navy game at a friend's house, where the guys fi-om his Naval Academy Company were congregating to watch the game together.

I did not know what a "Company" was, but I listened enough to figure out these must have been the guys he roomed with at college. 1 had had roommates in college, too, so I thought I was on familiar ground.

Never in my life have I been so looked over, as I was on that weekend. The guys looked me over. The guys' wives looked me over. The guys' sisters who were present looked me over. They asked me a lot of questions. "So, Susan, where did you meet the Book? Where did you grow up? Are you seeing anybody else right now? Are you a nurse? You are not a nurse! Gee, the Book always dates nurses.

Hmmm." They probed. They searched. They glanced knowingly at each other to my replies. The message came through loud and clear: no one was going to mess with the Book. They made myfiituremotherin-law look like a lamb in the woods.

As it turned out. Navy beat Army that year. At the end of the game, everyone ran out of the house, across the street, and jumped in the neighbor's pool. About an hour later, I was in the bathroom drying my hair when the Book came in, leaned against the sink, and asked me to marry him. At the time, silly me thought it might be something to do with me that weekend that brought the question on. 1 now am quite sure if Army had won, he would have put asking the big question off until Christmas.

He talked about an Academy miniature for an engagement ring, but I boo-hooed that idea. Being a recent college graduate and extremely proud of my independence, I explained I did not need a ring

from his college. I had my own college ring, thank you very much.

He took this rather well, and gave me the traditional solitaire.

Soon after we were married, we arrived to our first squadron. The duty was two deployments in three years.

Then, we had our first baby and moved to England five months later. He deployed several times while we were overseas, returning home to yet more deployments and another baby. I leamed what being a Navy wife is really about. I also leamed that his Company was a lot more than college roommates. I had come to know them over the years and I knew in my heart that they were always just a phone call away. If anything went really wrong, with Bookie, me, or the kids, I could count on those people.

They always kept tabs on each other and each others' loved ones. The bond that was locked between the guys in his Company is simply amazing.

During one of those early deployments, I remember reading A Sense of Honor by Jim Webb '68 and I began to imderstand not only the Naval Academy, but also my husband's deep sense of ownership, pride, and attachment to those hallowed grounds. Although I feel no such attachment for my college campus, I can feel the magic of it all as I walk by his side on the groimds of the Naval Academy. I also know that the true test is not on those grounds, but out at sea and on those lonely dark nights of deployments. We both have known far too many of those nights.

A couple of months before our fifteenth wedding anniversary.

Bookie brought up the subject of a miniature again. 1 told him that he could give me whatever he wanted; he was going to be home for this anniversary, and that was enough for me. When I opened the little velveteen box, there was a miniature set with an amethyst, which is my birthstone. 1 remember thinking how beautiful it was. I slipped it on my finger, and then I asked "Why this. Bookie?" The Book is not a man of many words. His answer was direct and to the point. "You earned it."

I am older and wiser than I was 24 years ago when we married. I have a lot to leam yetâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but I have leamed this much so far. His response to my query of why is for sure the greatest compliment my husband has ever, or will ever, give me. ^ ^ X ^ ^ ^ V '*^^

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NAVY ATHLETICS

Schiffelbein Competes at N C A A Diving Championships avy's Jonathan Schiffelbein finished 21 St in the platform diving competition at the 2000 NCAA Championships, in Minneapolis, MN. Schiffelbein qualified for his first national championship event by winning the zone diving championships held earlier this month at the Naval Academy.

Schiffelbein had a total score of 325.00 in the preliminary round.

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Army-Navy Update Men's Basketball: Navy 65 Army 47 Women's Basketball: Navy 64 Army 57 Baseball: Navy 9 Army 0 1999-2000 RECORD AGAINST ARMY: 184-1 (.804) 1999-2000 N-STAR RECORD AGAINST ARMY: 14-2-1 (.853)

Navy Named Preseason Golf Favorite fter winning the Patiiot League golf title by a landslide last year, the Midshipmen have been picked to repeat as the 2000 Patriot League champion. The Mids received the maximum of six first-place votes in the preseason selection process. Army was picked to finish second.

"We are very excited to be selected as the favorite for this year's Patriot League Championship, and we certainly hope to live up to those expectations," said Navy head coach Pat Owen. "This year's tournament has added value to the title with the automatic bid to die 2000 NCAA Golf Tournament."

Navy, who won the Patriot League championship a year ago by 21 strokes over Lehigh, returns 1999 Patriot League individual champion Pete Lauder (Fullerton, Calif.), along with captain Stu Usry '00 (Alpharetta, GA) and Joel Almquist '02 (El

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Cajon, CA), who all finished among the top 10 individuals. Lauder cruised to the individual championship with a score of 218 (75-7073). Meanwhile, Usry finished fourth (226 76-77-73) and Almquist placed ninth in his firstever league championship (229 - 80-73-76).

The Midshipmen also return Youngster* Drew Craig (Marion, Ohio) who came on strong last spring as a rookie, while Ryan Dranginis '00 (West Simsbury, CT) has the experience to help guide Navy back to the championship. Marty Keogh (Newark, DE) and Kirk Glockner (Wilmington, NC) will look to step up for 1999 Patriot League Coach of the Year Pat ('Continued on page 48)

Sause Named Academic All-District avy water polo player Andrew Sause '01 (Salt Lake City, UT) was named to the GTE/CoSIDA Academic All-District Fall/ Winter Men's University Division At-Large First Team from District II on March 23.

During the 1999 season, Sause tallied a teamhigh 44 assists and 65 points while leading the Midshipmen to a 19-13 record. In the classroom, he leads his teammates with a 3.84 grade point average while majoring in ocean engineering.

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Navy has won each of the past four Patriot League tities, and boasts of one of the top players in the Patriot League in Mitchell Koch. Last season, Koch won the league's No. 1 singles title and this season has a record of 26-9. At No. 1 doubles, Koch and teammate Jim McHugh have a record of 17-3 on the season, and have eight of their nine matches this spring.

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ball Coaches District 4 Co-Coach of the Year announced by the NABC Monday afternoon. avy wrestling captain Justin Woodmff He shares the district honor with James Madi'00 (Poway, CA) was tripped up by son mentor Sherman Dillard.

Elliot Williams of James Madison, 12-9, in DeVoe, who owns a career mark of 470the second round of the wrestle-backs at the 314 (.599) and was named the Patriot League 2000 NCAA Wrestiing Championship March Coach of the Year by his peers, became just the 29th active coach to post 450-career wins 17, in St. Louis, MO. Woodruff concluded his career with a four- when he led the Mids past Northeastern, 67year mark of 87 wins and 33 losses, includ- 57, in Boston last December. Navy's 23 wins this season are the most wins by a Navy team ing a 33-10 record in 1999-2000. since David Robinson led the Midshipmen to a 26-6 record and an NCAA Tournament appearance during the 1986-87 season. The DeVoe Shares NABC District 4 23 wins are also the most victories DeVoe has Coach-of-the-Year Title fter guiding the Navy men's basketball produced in a single season in his 27-year team to a 23-6 mark in 2000, eighth-year collegiate coaching career.

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Josh Stewart finished second with a jump of 51*00.75. Navy scored 10 points in the shot put as Jeff Hollenbach finished second with a throw of 56'01.25 and Steven Ranes placed fifth with a throw of 52'06.50.

On the track, Eric Adams placed fourth in the mile (4:07.20), Chris Simonsen finished sixth in the 55 meters, Torrance Chaplin was second in the 400 meters (48.42), Jacob Johnson finished fifth in the 400 (48.94), Aaron Lanzel finished second (2:25.52) and Richard Ruge third (2:25.55) in the 1,000 meters, the 4 x400 meter relay team of Torrance Chaplin, Brian Dembinski, Andrew Ward and Jacob Johnson placed second in a time of 3:16.21 and the Distance Medley relay team of Richard Range, Douglas Kay, Eric Adams and Justin Mikolay placed third in a time of 10:02.53.

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he Navy men's swimming team con eluded its 2000 season with a fourthplace finish at the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League Championships, held at Princeton. The Midshipmen totaled 843 points over the three days, and finished behind Harvard (1468), Princeton (1233.5) and Yale (1141.5). Last year Navy finished in fifth-place at the event.

In the final session of the meet, Sumner Rollings '03 (Poway, CA) started Navy off with a 12th-place finish in the 1650-yard freestyle with a time of 15:59.64. Tim Ray '02 (Rochester, NY) and Ganett Kulczycki '02 (Vero Beach, IT.) both recorded personalbest times in the event for Navy. Ray had a time of 16:14.21, while Kulczycki clocked in with a mark of 16:17.72.

In the 200-yard backstroke, Mike Heiny '03 (Advance, NC) finished with the secondbest time in the consolation finals, completing the event with a personal-best time of 1:49.73. CUnt Cornell '02 (Dickson City, PA) finished third in the 100-yard freestyle with a personal-best and NCAA 'B' qualifying time of 44.91, while Firstie Brian Glaser (Lafayette, IN) finished fifth with a time of 45.32, just onehundreth of a second away from his career-best time.

Peter Fehring '00 (Cincinnati, OH) followed for Navy with a third-place finish in the 200- yard breaststroke (2:03.98). Competing in the three-meter diving event was Jonathan Schiffelbein '01 (Reston, VA), who finished in third-place with a score of 510, just 4.75-points out of second-place.

Navy closed the championships with a second-place finish and a Navy school record in the 400-yard relay. Navy's team of Brian Glaser, Brad Geary '00 (Altamonte Springs, FL), Brett Cline '01 (Virginia Beach, VA) and Clint Comell finished with a time of 2:59.91, just behind the Princeton team that won the event with a time of 2:59.16. Navy's time is also a NCAA 'B' qualifying time.

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he Navy men's squash team lost to Brown 8-1 in the Hoehn division semi-final match at the National Intercollegiate Squash Racquets Association Championship at Yale in Febraary.

Andrew Cook '00 gave Navy its win at the No. 4 position with a recorded 15-8,15-12,815,15-11,15-9 victory over Brown's James Rich. In the finals, the Midshipmen fell to Franklin & Marshall 5-4. Navy got their wins at the Nos.4,7,8 and 9 spots. Cook, Clint Lawler, Jamie Peach and Edson Greenwood collected victories for the Navy.

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Turning in a season-best performance in the 3,000-meter mn was Melissa Foon '01 (Lexington, KY), who finished third (9:34.74). The Midshipmen got another strong performance from its indoor captain Joanna Helm '00 (Baltimore, MD) as she tallied a ninth place finish in the 60-meter hurdles (8.77). The dual-event competitor lowered the school mark even further in the 500-meter dash with a third place finish in a time of 1:12.80.

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^Continued from page 49) (Detroit, MI) and Erin O'Marr (Mechanicsburg, PA). Nagbe crossed the line in the 60-meter dash in atimeof 7.74. O'Manfinished third in the 1,000-meter dash in a school-record, 2:51.92.

Amanda '03 (Sebastian, FL) continued to perform well in the pole vault as she finished fifth clearing i r i l . 7 5 " . Teammate Kate Macfarlane (Monkton, Md.) finished tenth while soaring over 10' 11.75. Shannon Crites '03 (Powell, OH) tied for sixth in the high jump as she cleared 5'4.5".

Navy Women Place Fourth at Heps he Navy women's track and field team finished in fourth place at the Heptagonal Track and Field Championship. Navy finished with 64 points. Harvard won the meet with 109 points, while Brown finished second (92) and Comell took third (69).

"I thought we had an outstanding meet," Sciid Navy head coach Carla Criste. "We broke eight school records today so I can It ask much more out of our team than that."

The Midshipmen got points from Amy Baxter (who finished second in the mile), Joanna Helm (third in the 55 meter hurdles in a school record time of 8.24 and second in the 400 meters in a school record time of 56.17), Chantelle Nagbe (second in the 55 meters with a school record time of 7.13 and fourth in the 200 meters, including a school record time of 25.37 in the semi-finals), Melissa Foon (won the 3,000 meters in a school record time of 9:46.05), the 4x400 meter relay team of Marcia Flack, Jocelyn Butcher, Amy Stokes and Joanna Helm (second in a school record time of 3:52.00), the 4x800 meter relay team of Erin O'Marr, Maureen Carr, Catherine Williams and Amy Baxter (fourth in a school record time of 9:06.31) and Amanda Hasenauer (second in the pole vault with a school record jump of 12'01.25).

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Other Mid finishers included, Erin Emery in eighth-place finish in the 200 freestyle (1:56.45), Salness in the 100 breaststroke (1:06.54) and Schnars in the 100 backstroke (54.84). The 800 freestyle relay team of Melissa Hawley, Jones, Emery and Salness finished in third with a time of 7:47.39. Central Connecticut was first (7:43.61) while Boston College took second (7:45.79).

In the final day of competition, with a personal best of 2:09:33, Julie Dunnigan '02 finished 11th in the 200 backstroke, while teammate Emery also placed 11th in the 100 freestyle with a time of 54:01. In the 200 breaststroke, Salness captured fourth in a time of 2:22.36.

In the final event of the championship, the 400-yard freestyle relay. Navy finished in fourth place with a time of 3:34.90. Navy's relay team consisted of Emery, Costello, Salness and Hawley. This marks the relay team's best time.

Five Mids Earn NRA All-America Honors ive members of the Navy rifle team were honored by the National Rifle Association at a banquet in Lexington, VA. In air competition, George Adams '01, from Pearl River NY, was named SecondTeam Ail-American along with teammate Tran Lam. At the NCAA individual air rifle competition. Lam finished in eighth scoring 388, while Adams finished 13th scoring 385.

In smallbore, Adams was named FirstTeam and sophomore Luke Shank was named Second-Team Ail-American. Bill Tolson '02 received Honorable-Mention All-American honors. The NRA chose 10 members for each of the four teams based on scores attained in collegiate competition throughout the year.

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George Adams was Navy's top shooter in both guns, shooting a 386 in air and a 578 in smallbore. The air rifle team was made up of Adams, Tran Lam, Josh Kelly and Luke Shank, while the smallbore shooters were Adams, Jon ladonisi. Bill Tolson and Shank.

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Dawson's former coach Bobby Bayless, who currently serves as the head tennis coach at Notre Dame, noted his former player will have a profound effect on Navy squash. "He will be a great ambassador of the Navy squash program and he will give it direction to help the program move forward."

One of the goals that Dawson said is that he plans to use the required conditioning program of the Midshipmen to improve their squash games.

Youngster Stephen Huber (Lake Forest, IL) is looking forward to playing for Dawson as he will "lead us to a more developed view of the game."

While playing both tennis and squash for Navy, Dawson was an All-America squash player and an All-East singles and doubles player, in addition to being captain of both teams during his First Class season.

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The Class also has suffered the loss of another widow. Please see the Class of '25 column for the obituary of Mrs. Dorothy W. Miller, widow of both Everett Woolman Abdill '24 and Lermond "Red" Miller '25.

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Shipmate has received the following sad news from The Times Union (Albany, NY): Marion B. (Garson) Welsford, age 88, passed away after a brief illness on Valentines Day, 14 February 2000. Mrs. Welsford was bom in Philadelphia PA, daughter of the late John Fredrick Garson and Florence B. Moore; widow of Henry Reed Welsford, deceased 1974, a graduate of the Naval Academy, a 1924 USA Olympic Bronze Medal winner in rowing, and retired as a lieutenant commander.

Mrs. Welsford received her undergraduate degree at Drexel Institute of Technology and her master's degree in education from the University of Pennsylvania.

She was a devoted high school business education teacher at Pennsauken, NJ, retiring at age 70. She is survived by her loving family, daughters, Ms. Diane H. Benner of Chariotte, NC, and June W. Metzger and her husband, James St., of Clifton Park, NJ; a sister, Florence E. Garson of Clifton Park; and four grandchildren, Michael S. Benner of Charlotte, NC, Frank R. Benner of Atlanta, GA, James Metzger Jr, of Troy, NY, and Jill A. Metzger of Clifton Park; and one great-grandchild, Walker Reed Benner of Atlanta, GA. Interment took place at

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The following sad news appeared in The Herald-Sun (Durham, NC) on 18 February 2000: Dorothy F. Miller died at Carolina Meadows retirement community, where she had resided since 1989, on 12 February 2000.

She was bom Dorothy Marie Fairbairn in Chicago, IL, on 27 May 1905, the daughter of Frederick and Mame Ophelia Lovgren Fairbairn. Educated at Sweet Briar College in Virginia and at Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH, where her parents had later made their home, she was married in the Episcopal Cathedral in Cleveland in 1927 to Everett Woolman Abdill '24, a young naval officer who had been an outstanding Midshipman in the Class of 1924 at the United States Naval Academy and a Classmate there of her brother, Donald Fairbairn '24.

She and her husband, along with their growing family, three daughters bom variously in Manila, P.I., Washington, D.C, and Long Beach, CA; served their country at Naval duty posts around the world. Everett Abdill, who had become a submariner, was posted to Manila; Tsingtao, China; Washington, D.C, the Panama Canal Zone; New London, CT; Newport, RI; Long Beach, CA; and Pearl Harbor, HI; before WWII. In Tsingtao, faced with a squad of Japanese soldiers determined to bivouac on her lawn, while her Chinese houseboy beat on pots and pans in the kitchen, Dorothy drove the Japanese off her lawn with a Flit Spray.

In 1944, CAPT Abdill was chief of staff to the admiral commanding the task force that carried General McArthur's forces back into the Philippines. The captain was killed at Leyte Gulf in December 1944, on the deck of the task force flagship by a Japanese Kamikaze bomber Dorothy Abdill, left with a widow's pitiful pension, moved her three daughters from San Francisco back to Alexandria, VA, found work in the Department of State and then in the Department of the Navy, nurtured and brought up her daughters and sent them all to college.

When she had done that, she sold the home she had bought in Falls Church, VA, and bought a cottage at Virginia Beach. There, she offered her children and grandchildren a haven by the sea. There, the whole family repaired to be with her and enjoy the warm hospitality she provided them and all her friends.

No passive witness to a disturbing world, she was an active member of the League of Women Voters, managed locally the campaign of a candidate for the lieutenant-governorship of Virginia, vigorously opposed United States involvement in the Vietnam War, earned a distinguished service award for her work with the United States Association for the United Nations, and fought for the rights of service widows.

Twenty-six years after Captain Abdill's death, she was married to Commander Lermond "Red" Miller '25, by then retired both from the Navy and from the faculty of Old Dominion University. He was a widower whose grown children she cherished as she had done her own. For nine years, the Millers enjoyed their "retirement," traveled, visited their children, fished from the beach, and grew old together When "Red" suffered a stroke, Dorothy drove thirty miles a day to keep him company in the hospital. After his death, she continued her loving role as mother to both families of children.

Eighty-four years of age by 1989, she sold her home in Virginia Beach, moved to Carolina Meadows, and lived out her life there, loved by her children, and supported by them as she gave them her loving support.

She is survived by her sister, Charlotte Fairbairn McGinnis, of Rochester, MN; her daughters, Mary Jane Abdill Hunt, of Chapel Hill, NC; Evelyn Abdill Sweet, of Bethesda, MD; and Charlotte Abdill Nevin, of Johnson City, TN; CDR Miller's daughters, Antoinette Miller Drain, of McLean, VA; Mercedes Miller Barker, of Hendersonville, VA; and Virginia Miller Thomas, of Virginia Beach, VA; Dorothy's grandchildren, Kristin Nevin, of Miami Beach, FL; Trisha Nevin Reid, of Johnson City, TN; Havilah Hunt, of Chapel Hill, NC; Douglass Hunt III, of New York City; Amanda Hunt Austell, of Tampa, FL; and Arthur Hunt, of Raleigh, NC; and her greatgrandchildren, Mary Evelyn Austell and Sarah Jeslyn Austell, of Tampa, FL; and John Harrison Hunt of Raleigh, NC, the latter born the week Dorothy Marie Fairbairn Abdill Miller died.

A memorial service was held at the Chapel of the Cross in Chapel Hill, NC, on 18 February 2000. Her ashes will be interred at a graveside service in Arlington National Cemetery at a later date.

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I received the following letter from Polly few years ago. Here are more: 1. While the bombs were dropping, some Curry, telling of her recent sad news: American ships were hit, including My husband of 66 years. Manly Lamar SHUBRICK, commanded by Lou Bryan. The Curry, died on 6 February. He had been ill bomb went down the forward smokestack, with emphysema for three years. He loved through the fireroom and the hull, finally his alma mater with a passion and he enexploding on the bottom of the bay tered the Marine Corps, where he served (Palermo Harbor). It broke the keel of for 30 years. His best friend and roommate SHUBRICK, which was later towed to Malta at the Academy, also entered the Corps. for repair William F. Coleman died in November 2. GRANT (Andy's new command) arrived 1999. These two were two of the "greatest at Manus Atoll where we were assigned to generation" and they both retired as brigathe "Little Beaver" squadron under CAPT dier generals.

Arleigh Burke and a Japanese base in New The ranks grow thin, as is to be expected, Guinea. As a plane guard, we picked up but the USNA goes on training our men and pilots who had carrier mishaps. One had women in the best tradition. As we say, his tailhook break and he skidded over the "Semper Fi." side; he was picked up in the wreck of his The Charleston area is shy of '29ers, but it plane completely unconscious. is good to have a list of at least eighteen good 3. In August and September, we invaded addresses of Classmates still around in our Saipan and Tinian. GRANT was assigned as world. I know Shipmate (and I) would be a "close-in fire support" ship. Twice the Marines ashore, directing our fire, were happy to hear from them. Dorothy Flatley over-run and killed. We would call and call but only silence. This was a brutal action with the Japanese fighting down to the last man. Brainwashing had convinced them of what the American beasts would do; we Annual Membership: 31% watched in utter horror, as they would throw Life Membership: 47% women and children off the cliffs into the water before jumping in themselves.

Pres; RADM William O. Snead, USN (Ret.) 4. Next came the invasion of Tinian and Sec'y: CAPT John A. Moreno, USN (Ret.) it was interesting listening to the voice con1214 Fifth Street, Coronado, CA 92118 versations of the Marine tanks talking back h: 619-435-3732 and forth. I remember well one commander As time passes and our ranks grow thinner calling out, "Get over here and cover meâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; it's getting damn lonely on this hill!" Later news becomes scarce. At least there are no we heard a Marine captain say to his comlosses this month! mand; "I've got about a dozen Japanese Rowland McKnight recently was hospiMarines holed up in a picket. What should talized for about a week because of a stroke.

I do with them?" Back came the order, He has somewhat recovered and is now at "Shoot the S.O.B.s." Then a reply, "Can't, home under the devoted care of his faithful they've just surrendered." son, John.

Last winter, the Trident published a story about Mids going to the Antarctic. (Ed's note: also see Shipmate, March 2000.) They were involved in the study of oceanography and ice formation. Our Alumni Association funded the venture, which certainly gave the students some unusual experiences like building ice huts and crossing crevices.

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While reading Guadalcanal by Carl Hixon, I felt that you would enjoy the sense of being there in those awful days of war.

Rising from a thousand Japanese threats was the flesh-crawling chant of "Banzai!

Banzai! Banzai" as Nasu's men, bayonets at the ready flooded out of the jungle and into the tall Kunai grass that would take them to our lines. On they came at the trot like Zulu impi, shrieking and taunting. But, the Marines had leamed their lessons well at the Tenaru and Edson's Ridge, and now had the hang of it. They drenched the oncoming waves of Japanese with mortar shells, punctuated with 105-mm howitzer rounds from the 11th Marines. Then as the range closed, they opened up with machine guns, BARS, and rifles, thickening the air with snapping lead into which the Japanese bravely charged, shoulders hunched, backs bent, like men bucking a blizzard. Their leading ranks disintegrated, and as fast as following ranks could take their places, they in turn were struck down. Progress against the flailing lead became impossible, except at two points where the momentum of the charge breached the wire.

There it was bayonet to bayonet, with men jerking and jabbing like video game figures as exploding grenades lit up the action. One of the breaches was quickly sealed but the second required reinforcements. Some untested Dakota and Minnesota farm boys were rushed up and fed into the Marine lines. The mud-plastered, adrenaline drunk Marines quickly gave them the scoop, and when the next howling wave of Japanese stmck, the nineteenyear-olds proved steady under fire and our lines held firm.

A note from Anne Sharpe brings word that Swede Eastweld's wife, Peggy, died of cancer last October She and Swede were married back in 1936. Her home was in Palos Verdes.

The Febmary Proceedings included a letter from a man named Mulholland. I read it because his name is so similar to our John MunhoUand who lives in Easton, MD. Back at the Academy we were always studying steam propulsion. It's interesting how they think more today along electric lines. Quoting from the letter: The conventional motor conceived for use in the Navy's current integrated power systems is an induction motor with a volume of more than 72m3 and a weight of about 129 tons. A comparably rated AC synchronous motor based on high temperature superconducting technologies is designed to have a volume of less than 9m3 and weigh less than 20 tons...A 33,000 hp HTS motor can be built on a machine frame of a size equivalent to that of a conventional 5000 hp motor.. .Applied to the Navy's propulsion requirements, the benefits of HTS promise the most profound paradigm shift in our lifetime.

Since I have taken on the job of Class Secretary, I have been lucky to receive war information telling about Classmates' activities.

Some of it has come from personal requests; some from gifts (friends like Edie Nisewaner); some from unknown sources, (see World WcUII writing which follows) and some from my own research. I believe WWII was our war and therefore most interesting to us.

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The Class of 1932 in the Atlantic The Neutrality Patrol 6 September 1939 Shortly after WWII began, on the morning of 6 September 1939, the President's Press Secretary announced that the Navy would establish a patrol 200 or 300 miles off the East Coast, to report the presence of belligerent ships. (Mr. Roosevelt's Navy.) Thus was instituted an operation in which our Class was to have major participation. Generally referred to as the "brutality patrol," it was a rather unloved assignment, as its nickname implies. Nevertheless, this patrol was to engage the full-time participation of several members of our Class.

The first shock wave hit the postgraduate school by Saturday of the same week.

The entire line postgraduate class, plus several other operating classes, in fact everything but design classes, were secured and orders issued for all students to go back to sea. Thus was bom the seven (years at sea) and seventy (days ashore) group. Orders were evenly split between the DD recommissioning details in San Diego or Philadelphia. A few requested orders elsewhere, but were all sobered by the fact that our war had probably begun. And it had!

The Neutrality Patrol was ordered to be strictly "non-belligerent," but the interpretation was left to circumstances. Class members found themselves in subordinate billets on the recommissioned DD, mainly just below executive officer. But they soon fleeted up to become execs. Until the United States entered the war, everyone on patrol "survived the miserable North Atlantic winter weather and the threat of U-boat attack in destroyers inadequately equipped with sonar and radar. Don Thomas It should be noted that although 50 of the recommissioned DDs were traded to Britain for bases, (Alex Coxe served in BREEZE after turning over FOOTE to the British) the DMs and DMSs were retained and fought the entire war, manned, in part, by Classmates.

The Neutrality Patrol acted pretty much in character by patrolling two or three hundred miles off the coast. It became apparent that this was not enough to satisfy the President, so in April he directed that the Patrol would extend its security patrol zone to the waters west of longitude 26 degrees west. This line extended from near Iceland to the Azores and included waters in which U-boats frequented.

This meant that incidents would occur. And so it proved!

Willie Williamson survived torpedoing of KEARNY by a U-boat in October. A few days later, GREER was attacked and RUBEN JAMES

was torpedoed and sunk. Muddy Waters, Moe Archer and Beetle Roach leamed about disarming mines and bombs in England. In 1941 they established the Mine Disposal School at Indian Head.

On 27 May Unlimited National Emergency was declared and closer liaison with England commenced. Charlie Odend'hal and George Hughes, flying a PBY on loan to the Royal Navy, assisted in locating and tracking BISMARCK. Bob Maulsby was flying with the RAF to observe the Air Defense of Britain and joined in search for BISMARCK. When the United States entered the war, operations led up to Normandy. There were 54

coastal c o n v o y s , Caribbean c o n v o y s , Murmansk mns, and AS W warfare. These men served as follows: Hank Seely, Tate Simpson and Scotty Campbell in WASHINGTON; Corky Ward in NORTH CAROLINA; Sam Moncure in ALABAMA and Walt Innis in WASP.

All operated at times with the British Home Fleet at Scapa Flow, covering Murmansk convoys. WASP, on one occasion, supplied replacement aircraft to Malta. Bill Outerson was serving in HMS RENOWN as observer when notified of attack on Pearl Harbor.

In May of 1943, BOGUE Escort Carrier Group scored a stunning victory over a Uboat pack between Greenland and Iceland, sinking three submarines and damaging three more. Art Goodue was in BOGUE; Don Thomas in LEA and Sammy Sampson in OSMOND INGRAM.

Photo taken from a TBF deployed aboard BOGUE (CVE9) shows U-boat under attack on 12 June 1943. The German deck crew mans its battle stations as a Mk 17 depth charge explodes alongside the vessel (US Navy) The Allied Offensive took place against North Africa, Sicily and Italy in November of 1942 with Jack Bandy commanding VF28 in SuwANEE at Casablanca; Gil Bitchel directed 16-inch main battery gunfire from MASSACHUSETTS, firing on JEAN BART (Vichy

French). In the African campaign, our Class commanded the following DDs: Charlie Hutchins in TILLMAN; Ralph Johnson in COWIE; Phil Cann in QUICK; Hank Ford in KNIGHT; Cliff Johnson in GLENNON; Bill Outerson in BEATTY; and Jim Collett in DAVIDSON. LOU Bryan in SHUBRICK took three bomb hits from Stukas but made it to Malta for repair.

The above Classmates also served in Sicily with the addition of Freddy Wolsieffer in WILKES and Dale Frakes in MERVINE.

The ships above, assigned to North Africa, later also served at Alemo and Anzio, with the addition of the following members of our Class: Al Kaplan in MAYO; Rufe Soule in HERBERT C . JONES; Dave Scott and John Speer in SAVANNAH (John was killed when a buzz-bomb struck one of the cruiser's gun turrets; Bill Outerson in BEATTY was torpedoed and the ship sunk by air attack, but Bill survived to command PLUNKET).

Some Classmates who participated in Overlord, at the Normandy landings were: Bob Beer in CARMICK; Jim Marshall in DOYLE;

Kenny Letts in FORREST; Baxter Billingsly in EMMONS; Bill Outerson in PLUNKETT; Cliff Johnson in GLENNON, struck a mine off the beach-head and was then sunk by enemy gunfire, but Cliff survived. Willie Dobbs in FESSENDEN sank U-1062 off Cape Verde Island in September 1944.

At the Allied landing in Southern France on 15 August 1994, our Class was represented

by Len Fraser in AUGUSTA, directing fire support; Chuckles Smiley in EBERLE; Willie Williamson in KEARNEY. Also, in their ships above, Bob Beer, Jim Marshall, Kenny Letts and Baxter Billingsley.

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Pres: ADM Thomas H. Moorer, USN (Ret.) Sec'y: RADM Charles A. Blick, SC, USN (Ret.) 8100 Connecticut Ave., #1721 Chevy Chase, MD 20815 h: 301-951-2044 San Diego Correspondent: Mrs. R.S. Riddell 4037 Alameda Drive, San Diego, CA 92103 h: 619-295-9091 The Washington Group met for lunch on 8 February at the Chevy Chase Club. Attending were Tom Moorer, Charlie Blick, Gary Coleman, Ginny and John Oren. From the Class of 1931, the attendees were John Webster, Ruth Day and Audrey Dempsey. Flu and snow accounted for the low tumout.

Tom Moorer regaled the group with a vignette of his youth. Before Tom entered the Academy, he understudied his dad, who was a dentist. On one occasion, Tom was in his father's office when his dad was in Atlanta at a dental conference. A man entered the office and demanded an immediate replacement for a missing front tooth. Tom advised the man that the dentist was out of town. The man pointed out that this was a matter of life and death (meaning Tom's) as he was to be engaged (in matrimony) that night. Rising to the occasion, Tom sat the man in the dental chair and selected a tooth from his dad's collection and placed it firmly in the man's mouth with dental cement. As Tom peered down the man's throat, he discovered a huge wad of tobacco. Tom ordered the man not to spit.

Despite this hazard, Tom accomplished the mission and the man was well pleased. As the man started to leave the office, Tom said, "That will be two dollars, please."

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Pres: CAPT Hugh Q. Murray, USN (Ret.) 6310 Fort Hunt Road, Alexandria, VA 22307 Sec'y: CAPT Roy C. Smith III, USNR (Ret.) 1310 River Crescent Drive, Annapolis, MD 21491 h: 410-224-4060 West Coast Correspondent: CAPT Robert W. Leeman, USN (Ret.) 1611 Chatsworth Blvd, San Diego, CA 92107 Last month we reported on the tiavels of Ernestine, Mrs. Dick O'Kane, to Bath and Pearl Harbor for the christening and commissioning of O'KANE, with her comments on visiting with Jean, Mrs. Chick Clarey. Here is a photo of Jean and Ernestine, the latter

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wearing a welcoming haku lei presented to her by Jean.

My Ann has a '34 miniature ring that she cannot use. If anyone is interested, please let me know.

This is all the news there is. One note only from the whole Class, which leads to an old dicho: Sin noticias, no hay periodica. (Without news, there is no newspaper.)

Two submariner widows. Jean Clarey and Ernestine O'Kane

The Postwar Career of the Junior Ensign Bill Germershausen provided insight on his command of SPADEFISH in June 1945 on a

sortie through the minefields of Tsushima Strait into the Sea of Japan.

Just before leaving Guam, an ensign came to me and asked to be transferred because he thought we were not going to return from this run. I gave him 30 minutes to get off the ship. His replacement was ENS Harry Buncke, who made his first and only war patrol.

Bill lost track of Buncke for 55 years, but recently was reunited and found that in the intervening time, Buncke had become a doctor, then a specialist in plastic surgery and, for the last 30 years, a pioneer in the field of microsurgery. Buncke devised a technique to enable him, in 1972, to perform the first transplant of a man's toe to his hand to replace a lost thumb. He does that routinely now with a success rate of 98 percent. He also performs reconstractive surgery on ears and other parts of the body, including tongues. Microsurgery involves peering through a microscope while painstakingly connecting blood vessels and nerves together using needles thinner than a human hair with a single strand of silk as a suture. Buncke, Director of the Microsurgical Replantation Transplantation Department of the Davies Medical Center in San Francisco, has been called the "Father of Microsurgery."

Despite all he has done, he has not forgotten his days in the Navy. In a recent response to a letter of inquiry regarding his career, he commented on his time aboard SPADEFISH, "My admiration for Captain Germershausen's courage and the bravery, cooperation and skill of the crew I am sure influenced me in my achievements in medicine."

Travels Annabella Walling DuBois (widow of John Walling) cmised to Hawaii aboard INDEPENDENCE in early December and "spent a delightful day with Jeanette and Ken West," as the adjoining photo shows. On her retum, after making "a few stops in Coronado" and crossing the country, she went on to Bequia, "a small island near St. Vincent," where she remained through the New Year's since, as she wrote, "my son has a home there."

Hugh Lewis

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Pres: CAPT Jefferson D. Parker, USN (Ret.) Sec'y: CAPT Jesse B. Gay, Jr., USN (Ret.) Corr. Sec'y: RADM Ed Keats, USN (Ret.) 3704 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21218 h: 410-235-3803; f: 410-243-1960 e: edkeats@aol.com Our 65th Reunion At the end of Febraary, there were more than 70 paid-up subscriptions to the Reunion.

The full schedule remains in effect.

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Sad News During late January and February, the Class lost Conrad Abhau, Virgil McQuary and Emmett Riera. Word has just arrived of the death of John Baranowski on 18 November 1999. Felicia predeceased him on 30 March 1999. Charles Alexander died on 15 November 1999.

Get-Togethers Classmates in the Washington area held their annual Valentine's Day party at the Army-Navy Country Club on 15 Febmary.

These seven widows were the guests of the Classmates who attended: Ida Mary Boyd (widow of Lou Detweiler), Audrey Cushman (widow of B o b C u s h m a n ) , Annabella DuBois (widow of John Walling), Fran Henry (widow of Tom Henry), Patsy Hutchinson (widow of George Hutchinson), Doris Russell (widow of ArtTarantino), and Elise Seymour (widow of Jack Seymour).

The hosts, with their wives, were Phyllis and Rod Badger, Chet Briggs, Poppy and Clagg Claggett, Ruth and Slade Cutter, Gwen and Jesse Gay, Sellen and Ed Keats, Fran and Doyen Klein, Ruth and Wy Packard, Louisa and Jeff Parker, and Ann and George Powell. Also present were Helen Aviles, Kay Masterton, and Peggy and Medford Canby.

A Technical Note This paragraph has been dictated, not typed.

Years ago, a secretary took dictation in a notebook, later words were spoken into a recording device, but both required a transcriber.

Now an inexpensive addition to a computer removes the need for a human interface. In this modem method there is no wait for transcription. In a seemingly miraculous fashion, the words appear on the computer screen a fraction of a second after they are spoken.

They are immediately ready for printing or transmission over the Internet. Of course, sometimes in the beginning days of use of the system, the computer becomes confused and other than the desired word appears. That can be easily corrected. Skill in using the system comes from practice just as practice is required in leaming to hit a ball, play a musical instrament or fly an airplane. The final result, however, is a delight. This is brought to the attention of the Class only to provide an incentive to become computer users for those whose arthritis or lack of famiUarity with the keyboard has held them back thus far.

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Jeanette and Ken West, Annabella DuBois in Hawaii on 11 December 1999

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Pres: CAPT William N. Price, USN (Ret.) Sec'y-Treas: CAPT O. M. Butler, USN (Ret.) 1101 S. Ariington Ridge Road Ariington, VA 22043 Corr. Sec'y: CAPT William A. Ellis, USN (Ret.) Goodwin House West #832 3440 S. Jefferson St. Falls Church, VA 22041-3127 h: 703-578-7546 Sorry to have missed the March and April issues, but after Ede's death a kidney infection developed which laid your C.S. low. The treatment is continuing, but here goes with what little news to report.

First, thanks to those in the Class Family who sent their sympathy and condolences after Ede's death. She is missed greatly and life is not the same now that she is not here.

John Graham reports that he has moved from Long Beach to San Diego with a new address of Major John W. Graham, USMC (Ret.), 18655 West Bemardo Drive, No. 570, San Diego, CA 92127. Jack English gives his new zip code as 66217. Marion Reed reports his new address as 801 Riverhill Drive, Athens, GA 30606. Peggy Ryan's new address is Mrs. Paul B. Ryan, 623 Las Colinda Road, San Rafael, CA 94903.

We have lost two more of the Class: Dallas "Buzz" Laizure died in Charlotte, NC, on 17 December 1999. Joe Barker passed away in Oakland, CA. And Mrs. Floyd T. Thompson died in August 1999.

That's all the news as of now.

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Paul Riley, Bush Bringle and Punchy Mason Sorry to hear about your heart problem, hope everything is under control now. Hope to make the 65th, if we have one. Keep revvin' for '37.

The San Diego Lunch Bunch met on 8 Febraary at the San Diego Country Club. In attendance were Ginny (Ball) Bailey and Claude Bailey '34 (hosts), Mel Cooper, Lois and Bob Erly, Bud Hall, Priscilla (Wescott) and Joe Huber, Bob Lander, Margie and Walt Phaler, Eloise and Gene Rankin (next hosts), Tory Harper and Frank Shamer, Russ Wallace, Jack Whistler, and Vic Wildt. The food was excellent. Having the out of town guests gave us all a lift.

Annual Membership: 45% Life Membership: 45% Gene Rankin. Lois Erly and Russ Wallace

Pres: CAPT John S. Slaughter, USN (Ret.) Sec'y-Treas: RADM D.G. Baer, USN (Ret.) Corr. Sec'y: CAPT Frank N. Shamer, USN (Ret.) 7112 Lewison Drive, San Diego, CA 92120-1248 e: FShamer@aol.com We lost both "Speed" Currie and "Foggy" Blasdel on 18 January and Ralph Kissinger on 4 Febraary. These are becoming frequent occurrences. Bob McWilliams died on 19 December 1999.

Hal Usher writes from 23 Hillway, Nedlands, 6009, Westem Australia (address added for those who do not have a copy of Bill Brinckloe's Class Register): Dear Frank, while sorting out some old photos, I came across the enclosed and thought some Classmates might be interested in seeing the way we were. Sam Duncan was a script writer who wrote the screenplay for the movie "Suez," but also had a great interest in the carrier, SARATOGA, hence our invites to his residence, where we often partied. I remember Rudo Tate, Ralph Benson, and Sid Miller '36 also came along, in addition to these three.

Joe Huber, Priscilla (Wescott) Huber and Mel Cooper Our Bill Brinckloe has contracted myaloma, a form of cancer that attacks the bone marrow of its victims. He felt the first

symptoms just before Christmas, when back pains set in. Hospitalizations around the first of the year brought the beginning of many chemotherapy sessions. He is home now and is staying active in keeping the Class Register. I understand that the chemotherapy is down to three sessions a week. We can all hope and pray that this willing contributor is to be brought back to radiant good health. He and Jo have cancelled out of the fall river craise.

Our president, Jack Slaughter, reports: We were saddened by the death of Foggy Blasdel on 18 January. A very fitting memorial service was held at the chapel in Leisure World, where they have lived for many years. However, due to the blizzard conditions blanketing the East Coast, only Dave Bell from our Class was able to make it. It was well attended by the many local friends they had made.

The traditional luncheon on the second Thursday of the month and good weather brought 13 of us to the Army-Navy Country Club. Curly A d a m s , Dave Bell, Paul Hartmann, Ethel and Fred Janney, Elsie and Bill Mack, Mary and Charlie Minter, Bess and Jack Slaughter, and Jean and Chuck Stein showed up.

Bill's walking after the knee replacement is normal and he says he has 120 degrees of range. You can't keep a good man down.

Morgan Baldwin was unable to attend, but reported that his Nancy, who had both knees replaced, was coming along somewhat slower than she had hoped, but fine. Don Baer had planned to come, but a sore back kept him home.

At a meeting several days before the luncheon. Jack and Don finalized the treasurer's report, and a check closing out the account the treasurer had been maintaining was sent to our "operating account" at the Alumni Association. The details are contained in the annual Class letter, which will be completed upon receipt of account information from the Association, and which you will have received before this information appears in Shipmate.

At the luncheon, we noted that we had also lost Ralph Kissinger and "Speed" Currie.

Gloria's letter, thanking the Class for the spray, was read.

As required by the Class Constitution, a nominating committee, consisting of Bill Mack, Paul Hartmann and Morgan Baldwin, to select a slate for next year's officers was appointed. However, not exactly in accordance with the Constitution, the committee met with one absentee and made a motion that the present officers be reelected. The motion

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was seconded by Charlie Minter and, before the present officers could affect a reclama, they were reelected by acclimation. So be it.

Upon adjournment, Dave, Chuck and Jean proceeded to Arlington Cemetery for Foggy's interment. A most befitting ceremony with full military honors was given for our friend and Classmate. Unfortunately, when Chuck and Jean retumed to their car, the security system worked so well that not even they could get it started. Triple A came to their rescue and towed them home. All's well that ends well.

The following Monday, Dave was to enter the hospital for a heart valve procedure. We have since leamed that this has been put off at least a week to make room for emergency cases.

Keep Revvin'With '37!

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did "it," and I did "it." "They" are our granddaughter. Amy, and James Schultz; "it" is their marriage; and the second "it" is that I did wear the tails. See photo below.

The wedding in Boston, 12 February 2000. L to r: RADM Mike Rindskopf, granddaughter. Amy Rindskopf, and groom, James V. Schultz

Class Comer Always we have some good news and some sad news, the latterfirst.Ben Adams, 1st Batt, passed away 1 February in Knoxville, TN, Pres: RADM M. H. Rindskopf, USN (Ret.) where he had resided for three years after 81 e: mrindskopf@earthIink.net years in Deny, NH. There, his lumber busiChairman, Washington Area: CAPT J. M. McDowell, USN (Ret.) ness provided sustenance while his first love h: 703-751-6144 was state and local politics, genes inherited Sec'y: CAPT D. K. Ela, USN (Ret.) from the presidential Adamses. Ben resigned 3260 N. 12fli St., #3329, Grand Junction, CO 81506 in 1940 when his eyesight denied flight trainh: 970-256-7174; f: 970-256-9120; e: dkela@gj.net ing. We have received thanks from Ben's President's Comer daughter, Janice Rioux, for Mike's note of Greetings from Florida, where the weather Class condolences. has convinced us that we, too, should be Bill Myers out in Rio Rancho, NM, has snowbirds. Keeping contact via the Interact filled us in on Paul Taft, 4th Batt. His meisn't quite as good as being on scene, so bear morial service was held 28 January at St. with me.

Luke's United Methodist Church of Houston, I have received what is probably the First TX. Paul resigned after WWII in STEVENSEN post-graduation Class roster, from Jim Payne to start a career in radio and ultimately Chanvia Paul Schultz. It is a listing of our origi- nel 11 of Taft Broadcasting Company. Active nal duty stations upon graduation. If any of in his church and Goodwill Industries, Hugh you have forgotten who were your first ship- Robinson found him still reminiscing Navy mates, just send me an email and I'll dig the on a visit to Houston several years ago. data out.

The good news begins with a note from Here's one for all the Class submariners. I Swede on the San Diego lunch bunch: Foley, was honored to offer the eulogy at graveside Harrington, Kercheval, Olsen, Ogle, in Arlington for RADM Freddie Warder '25 Ratliff and Ready held forth on gender senwho died on 1 Febraary at 95. He was, I be- sitivity froth, naturally inconclusive. Nature, lieve, the oldest World War II skipper at the nurture, killing fields, peace pastures: a mix time (and would have been the "Gray Dol- of many flavors (not to mention metaphors). phin" if we had such an award). He was OIC We think they concluded that the women do of the Submarine School when I was on the a good job, that the service ain't what it used staff after the war, and ComSubLant when I to be. We often wonder while in relaxing retwas OIC in 1958. Take a look in the Class of rogression on our retirement recliner if mari1925 notes or the April obituary column for tal standards don't apply, i.e. a trial and error further details. He was a great guy whom we sharing of family responsibiUties which can shift radically from routine to crisis managewill miss.

One final note, of the 62nd Reunion on the ment and back. Rigid mles of organization don't Columbia River. It appears our group will be suit, even in the trenches with Private Ryan. about 45, but promises to be a great experiWhile we've drifted way off the news beat ence. To all who are going, I recommend that in even suggesting things philosophical, hold you get a copy of River Horse by William on, please, we'll be brief on one more itemâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Least Heat-Moon (not an Indian). Read at Cal Calhoun reported receiving some adleast pages 445-502 which tells a great story verse commentary on the Naval Academy about the Snake and Columbia Rivers at the ethics program, a seminar approach to a mix end of his transcontinental trip via water from of philosophy theory (Kant, et al) on evaluating right from wrong in practical applicaNew York to Portland.

I have been challenging you to wear your tions often confrontational in nature. '38 sucuniform tails. 1 can now report that "they" cessfully sorted out right and wrong in three Annual Membership: 32% Life Membership: 53%

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wars with only "rocks and shoals" and naval history to guide us. We leave the conclusion as to which is the better approach, old or new, to our readers, if you are still with us. Hint: if technology is best taught with a mix of theory and formulary, why not ethics?

To cant back to the February lunch, Frank Jones reports these regulars: Arthur, Carter, Fleps, Dwyer, Robinson, Tucker (now settied in), Raymer. Absent notables were Sylvia and Mike Elderhosteling and basking in Florida with the likes of Paul Schultz, Ro Brown, and Herb Mandel, and Chairman Joe McDowell visiting daughter, Deborah in Portland, OR. The gender issue, wives lunch normally in April is postponed to May; visiting sailors call Joe for details.

Professional Note: With the collapse of the Cold War, and with much news print on the enormous costs of an anti-ballistic (ABM) missile defense, we have been concemed that a defense mentality would become our national posture. Chinese walls, gates of Troy, the Spanish Armada, a Treaty Navy and the Maginot Line were all defense mentality losers. So it was refreshing to read year 2000 vision statements of each of the Joint Chiefs as published in Troa Retired Officer Magazine, January 2000. Not a word about defense, many words about expeditionary objectives, fast deployment, mobility, high speed integrated communications, littoral task forces.

They were clearly fighting the next war, not the last one. In another vein, we read a penetrating analysis of Dwight Eisenhower, Jimmy Carter '47, and John McCain '58â&#x20AC;&#x201D; their distinction, they tell the truth! Perhaps by the time this issue hits the stands, the primaries will have made conventions an anachronism. And we were worried some columns ago about apathetic voters! Integrity, the product of the Academies, pays off?

Leadership pays: Are there more takers for the Al Laborde autobiography? Give us a call or a note.

RSRH (Reefed Sail Retirement Home) Notes Nirvana! Chocolate is good for the heart!

Nonetheless, as we have commented before on our age-related avoidance of vultures, we are much distressed to find their business is picking up.

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Gugliotta, Robinson, Margaret and Frank Jones

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Pres: CAPT Paul Loustaunau, USN (Ret.) Sec'y: CAPT William J. Ruhe, USN (Ret.) 1310 MacBedi Avenue, McLean, VA 22102 e: docabbot@aoI.com As promised in my previous column, and because it's a fun pastime to hit on West Pointers, I've produced herewith a couple of doosies for my readers: "A West Pointer's favorite meat is road kill." "The majority of cadets (by a slim margin) do not wipe their mouths on their sleeves." And, (this will take some thought on your part,) "Only seven percent of West Pointers drive 1955 Chevrolet pickup tracks." This is pretty bad stuff, n'est pas?

Several Classmates in a friendly(?) fashion have told me how much they disliked my use of the term "Middies" for Naval Academy Midshipmen. How about Mids? "That's even worse." So, from now on, I'll clearly define the Midshipmen I'm writing about as those who come from the U.S. Naval Academy. Is this okay? Or, should I just not write about them?

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Frank Lynch's widow, Emily, wrote questioning my description of her Frank only being 6-feet 3-inches tall (in his stocking feet).

"He was bigger than that," she claimed, "and I can prove it." (Sec 'y: Sorry about that.) And then Emily added, "Frank's grandson, Todd, is pushing 6-feet 7-inches." Oh? I received a cryptic death notice for LCDR Gilbert Ross Shacklette, USN (Ret), who is listed as a contract administrator and Class of 1939 non-grad "who served in the Navy for 24 years" and who died on 24 January 2000. (At the February Washington '39 Class luncheon, only one of the '39ers remembered him. But, that's all.) Shacklette's death notice said he died at Tammany Parish Hospital from "undetermined causes" in Covington, where he'd lived for the past 37 years with his wife, Carolyn Jones Shacklette. He also had two surviving sons, Ross and Craig; three daughters, Susan Adams, Barbara Moore, and Linda Thovson; plus 12 grandchildren.

Dolan come up from the San Diego area and Classmate Grant Rogers in from Sedona, AZ. It was a great game, because we won for a change.

Sally added: I had another fall in Julyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;no broken bones, but I did have cuts that required ER stitches. All I can say is, "Screw the Golden Years!"

Sally was also high in her praises for Jim Coleman and his "most efficient committee" for the greatest four-day reunion "even" And, "We are already looking forward to the 65th in 2004."

Bob and Sally Gulick and Jack Bauer

Betty Guerry praises Jim Coleman for his 60th Reunion efforts

Sally and Bob Gulick sent a Valentine's Day letter saying: Bob started 1999 with three specific goals to spur him on. He made all three of them!

The first was to attend his 65th class reunion in June at his prep school, Westem Reserve Academy in Hudson, OH. Goal number two was his 60th Class Reunion at the Naval Academy in October for Homecoming. The Akron football game on that day was against Sally's alma mater, Akron University. She was probably the only '39er to be happy about the outcomeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a victory over Navy. Bob's third goal was to see the millennium ushered in, but he slept through this Y2K problematical moment, not awakening until 5 a.m. when he noted they'd lost power and had a two-hour blackout.

They added: Our specific goal for 2000 is to have the annual Army-Navy TV party (Gulick's Grog and Grille) at our home. The 1999 attendance was depleted by six illnesses in the final 24 hours before the kickoff, but we were honored to have Classmate John

Sam Collins sent an obituary on Chuck Nace from the Hampton Roads Virginia Pilot newspaper and noted that he'd gone to Chuck's funeral service at the Naval Academy Chapel and to his burial in the Naval Academy Cemetery on 4 Febraary 2000. "I paid my condolences to Chuck's widow, Pat, at the funeral parlor yesterday. I was wearing my Class tie and my best (I think) suit. Unfortunately, I failed to ask about other visiting '39ers."

I also was alerted to the death of Earl Compton Moore on 7 November 1999. No details. Who are these mysterious non-grads?

Did they get out during Plebe Summer? Probably.

Frank Coulter called to say that he and Marie had attended the funeral service and burial of Chuck Nace at the Naval Academy and that he'd counted five '39ers at the service and interment "with full military honors, including a 13 gun salute to honor

L to r: rear: Karl Van Meter, Mardi Ringness (widow of Bill Ringness), and Nancy Van Meter;/ronf; John Dolan and Grant Rogers, Neil Harkleroad, Virginia Hayden (Hayden Leon '33's widow), and Sally Gulick Shipmate, May 2000

Chuck's rear admiral status." The '39ers that Frank spotted were Ebbie Bell, up from Virginia Beach, along with Sam Collins, Stan Hindman. and Jeff Miller. The eulogy was delivered by the Academy's chaplain, who produced many facts about Chuck's life, but lacked the personal touch of a Classmate who had been close to Chuck most of his life, and who really knew what a friendly, low-key person he was, and how he was held in high regard by his Classmates. Coulter also mentioned that Chuck's wife, Pat, was quite stoic throughout the service and burial. She is to be admired for her brave attitude. Coulter emphasized that the Class' superb bouquet of blue and gold flowers did a lot to make the Chapel's altar a very special place.

became enamoured with FSU when he had his Merchandise Mart booming with business in Pensacola—near FSU's campus. Today, Florida State University, under the coaching of Bobby Bowden, has a football team ranked number one in the country. A love like Norm's never dies, so he inundates me with newspaper articles about his favorite football team— the FSU Seminoles. Norm began following the Seminoles more than 50 years ago, and his interest in the team has not lagged for a minute. Luckily, FSU does not play Navy!

Norm stresses that he does not wear his FSUinsignia baseball cap to Navy football games!

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Pres: CAPT William M. Carpenter, USN (Ret.) 1119 Aquia Drive, Stafford, VA 22554 Sec'y: CAPT Jacob V. Heimark, USN (Ret.) 410 Old Gulph Road, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010 Corr. Sec'y: CAPT Edward C. Sledge, USN (Ret.) 932 Shedand Court, McLean, VA 22102 John Lacouture checked in with a great story about Swede Carlson. Swede has now had his name memorialized on the side of a Korean War AD Skyraider bomber exhibited on YORKTOWN, now a display ship across the river at Charleston, SC. The plaque reads: AD Skyraider 505 proudly dedicated by YORKTOWN, CV-10 Association in honor of Korean War Hero, CDR Harold "Swede" Carlson, USN. Arriving off Korea aboard PRINCETON (CV-37) six-months after the start of the UN's "Police Action" in 1950, Swede Carlson immediately led the VA195 Skyraiders daily support of ground troops retreat from the Chosin Reservoir and evacuation from Hungman.

Rachel and Ebbie Bell

Gloria and Norm Bennett Norm Bennett unloaded a stack of newspaper clippings on me. They were about the love of Norm's life—the Florida State football team. One article told of FSU from Tallahassee, beating Virginia Tech to win the 1999 national football championship. Norm Shipmate, May 2000

3 March '51, after discovery of three raillines from Manchuria emerging from tunnels unto two 600-foot bridges crossing a canyon, Carlson took eight skyraiders and dropped one span and damaged three, thus beginning a campaign which RADM Ralph Ofstie '19, Commander Task Force 77, designated the Battle of "Carlson's Canyon." For 30 days Carlson's and other Skyraider squadrons destroyed portions of the bridges by day; and the Chinese repaired them by night, until finally admitting defeat. Soon after, James Michener visited TF-77 and adopted Carlson's saga into his highly successful book and subsequent movie. Bridges at Tolm-Ri. Carlson's VA-95 acquired the nickname, DAMBUSTERS, when on 1 May he led one of two divisions of Skyraiders on the very unusual, and first aerial torpedo attack since WWII, against Hwachon Dam which impounded Pukham River and had great tactical potential for whoever controlled its massive flood gates. After withstanding guided bombs from Air Force B-29s and 2,000 pounder and 11.75-foot Tiny Tim rockets from other skyraiders, two 20x40x2-inch gates were destroyed by direct torpedo hits by Carlson and five other pilots thus releasing an immense body of water For all of the above, Carlson was awarded the DFC and three air medals.

Swede, we of '40 are bursting with pride over your achievements. "/f is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help."

In this case, it was Jim Michener who did.

This month. Professor Charles D. Arthur is our super-achiever. He was not a flyer or a submariner. He led a very different, adventure-filled life. Now quietly retired, this very private man was finally persuaded to let me pass this most interesting story along to our Classmates.

At the end of Plebe Year, as an eye unsat, this Pennsylvanian resigned and then entered the University of Pittsburgh where he earned a B.A. degree in 1939. This was followed by two years in Harvard's graduate school.

In 1941, he began working at the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company while studying law at night. In 1943 he began military service as a naval reserve officer, with duty on destroyers, amphibious forces and the staff of the 7th Fleet in the Pacific.

In 1947 while in Tsingtao, he separated from the naval service and moved to Bangkok, Thailand, where he established a trading firm. He chose Thailand partly because he had been there on Navy business while with the 7th Fleet and liked what he saw. His trading company concentrated on silver, reptile wares and skins, boot and shoe manufacture as a cottage industry, rattan ware, fiber rags and raw fibers.

Eight years later he opened a branch office in Hong Kong. This involved much travel to keep all operations and sales going. As a member of the international community, he found time to be involved in cultural, academic studies, sports and general social life that has prevailed in the Thai pattem of living for more than 200 years.

There was a wealth of experience to be gleaned from these European old-timers, especially the British who were practiced in the colonial crafts. Since the American community was then so small in comparison to the French, British, and Danish, Charles had to join and politic energetically to make his presence felt and protected!

Charles' sister, Ruth, married an American government officer in Bangkok, and soon he had his parents join him for an extended twoyear residence in Bangkok. Thus the Arthurs made their presence felt!

Historic treaty rights gave the British and other European flags a preferred position in trade, especially in the import fields, where they filled the lucrative govemment contracts for machinery, chemicals, electrical wares, armaments and munitions, steel, aluminum, ships, aircraft, etc. These Treaty Powers, with their vested teak and tin site leases, used them to help keep Americans out.

The great mixing bowl for the foreigner was not the church, the chambers of commerce, or ethnic societies, but rather the sports association where all chose to participate and compete. In Bangkok, and other Southeast Asian capitals too, this included horse racing, golf, tennis, squash, swimming, hunting, and polo.

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In many cases these sporting competitions included Rangoon, Bangkok, Saigon, Chittigong, Calcutta, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, and others who had clubs similar to the Royal Bangkok Sport Club. Also attached to the club were the stables for racehorse owner members. This was convenient for Charles when he had his racehorse "Jayart," since he could observe his training on a daily basis while using the club facilities.

As one of a handful of willing businessmen who would give time to civic and club functions, it was not unusual for him to be called upon to assist in various functions, charity and otherwise. In these capacities he frequently found himself in contact with the nations leading scholars, businessmen, political and military leaders and many of the extended royal family members. When Charles was appointed a steward of the race club, many of his fellow stewards were men of high royal, diplomatic or military rank, both Siamese and European.

Charles was privileged to live in Siam under two reigns, the Regency of Prince Rangsit, and under the present King Phumiphun Aduldet, who arrived from Switzerland schools to assume power after his older brother, the late King Ananda Mahidol, died of gunshot a few months before Charles arrived in Bangkok (Regicide?).

Soon followed a spectacular ceremony of the King's coronation and marriage which Charles and his sister, Ruth, attended. The pomp and pageantry of these colorfiil ceremonies of great antiquity rendered to Siamese Kings is beyond description, particularly the ancient dress, the court robes, the classical court dancers, and the classical Siamese music. Attending were many royalty as well as political leaders from all over the world.

After several years, he found himself as a committeeman or govemor on the boards of many organizations. While each of the national groups usually had its own small ethnic club, the Royal Bangkok Club was the great refuge of most of the foreign community, with restricted membership for Asians approved by the first Patron, King Mongut.

The King had granted hundreds of acres of land for a club that would permit foreigners to "meet together in their own cultural environment as a respite from their daily travail."

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Aside from the sports aspect of the club, there were many other facilities available for family use. A large banquet area was available for weekend dancing or national parties.

The St. Andrews, St. Georges, and St. Patrick nights were gala affairs. For St. Andrews, they practiced three weeks in advance. Bagpipe units appeared out of the countryside, haggis was flown in from Scotiand, and the Scots were all fully dressed in kilts and trews. The same efforts were put into Bastille Day, or the Danish national day. However, the 4th of July was always celebrated on the lawn of the American Ambassador's residence.

It would take many pages to describe the intricacies of the steps necessary for successful import/export trade. Unlike domestic trade, one was constantly dealing in fluctuating currencies, foreign bills, letters of credit with international complexities, customs clearance procedures for both import and export, various customs and handling costs, serious pilferage problems involving Siamese and Chinese criminal elements, lost or damaged cargoes, dishonest inspection reports on quantity and quality, and the ever-present tradition of "squeeze," (an accepted practice of kick-back or bribery).

In order to surmount these obstacles, foreign firms retained a skilled Asian compradore. His job was to act as a buffer between Westerners and Asians in all matters where sensitivity to race, moral differences, business standards of honesty, money matters, efficiency concepts, employee health problems, wages, method of payment, and all other problems that are sensitive to the "white man" syndrome in mixed relationships.

The compradore hired andfired,made business purchases, scheduled local production, purchased raw materials, handled injuries, dealt with "squeeze," and literally had carte blanche control of the company accounts as they affected his responsibilities. Historically, compradores were able, clever, efficient, dishonest and over a long period, rich. Charles' last one, who nearly sent him into bankruptcy, is now a very wealthy and honored Siamese business tycoon.

While Charles usually used his car for longdistance tiavel around Bangkok, for short distances he used either the Chinese rickshaws or the Siamese three-wheeled Samlors. These vehicles carried temple-type bells that tinkled constantly as the carriage jolted down the rough streets. It was both pleasant and relaxing to have close exposure to the sights, sounds and smells of the streets.

Most lunches and dinners were taken at members clubs. There were also some excellent Chinese and Siamese restaurants that offered seafood, fowl and pork as staples, along with spicy curry and very fine rice and noodle dishes.

After spending 12 years in Southeast Asia, Charies retumed to the U.S. in 1957. He then went on to study for three years at the University of Innsbrack (Austria), the University of London School of Economics and the School of Oriental and African Studies. This

was followed by his teaching for three years at the American School in Lugano, Switzerland, before moving to Newport, RI, where he taught at the Newport school. He also enrolled in the University of Rhode Island (1963-1965), where he earned a master's degree in Asian history. Charles then spent two years as an MSTS officer supporting the Vietnam War. Next he spent one year at Cambridge University as a doctoral student before joining the faculty at Penn State University as a history professor. There he remained until he reached mandatory retirement age in 1981.

Since he had obtained his Merchant Marine officer license in 1943, Charles then decided to continue work as a Merchant Marine officer, travelling the world for another eight years until he fully retired at age 72.

While in Britain in 1954 he earned a British private pilot's license and an American pilot's license three years later. He also qualified as a glider pilot in both Europe and the U.S. Along the way he was active as a classical pianist and as a vocal, choral and band musician. Charles also participated in equestrian sports. This included dressage, jumping, polo and fox hunting. Perhaps Charles could organize an over-80 polo team and then challenge George Kittredge to bring his over-80 polo team to play one or more matches with Charles' Pennsylvanians.

Two things are striking to me. The first is the wide range of interests that Charles pursued. The second is his degree of involvement in each one.

At present, diabetes has taken its toll on Charles Arthur, so no longer is he very active as he straggles, as all his over-80 Classmates do, with their daily aches and pains.

How many of you readers knew we had in our midst a Classmate who marched through life as Charles did, going his own way, doing whatever appealed to him at each crossroad in life.

To you, dear Classmate, we thank you for sharing some of your many, most interesting experiences with us.

"Do not walk behind me, for I might not lead. Do not walk ahead of me, for I might not follow. Just leave me alone."

On 15 January the monthly meeting of the PALs group took place at Ft. Myers Officers' Club. Turnout was good with Berndtson, Burke, Carpenter, Chase, Eckert, Hill, Karch, Kronmiller, Montgomery, Patterson, Scott, Seim, Sledge, Stanwick, and Stirling present. Reports are that all enjoyed this postChristmas catch-up time with each other.

"A babysitter is a teen-ager acting like an adult while the adults are out acting like teen-agers."

Art Vamum, Lois and Vic Matusek

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Thanks to the Vamums, we have this good picture of Art with Lois and Vic Matusek when Caryl and Art Varnum traveled north to visit daughter, Ann; grandson, Peter, and his wife, Clare; and most important, their newly arrived twin great-grandchildren, Sabrina and Brennan. Vic still plays golf twice a week and enjoyed reviewing Midshipmen days of long ago with Art. How many can top Art's record of 65 pushups that he did during the great 1999 victory over Army? When A-N game fans gather, as they do each year at the Orange County A-N game party, everyone has a great time.

"Why do bagpipers walk when they play?

They're trying to get away from the noise."

In this age of shrinking fingers. Classmates often find their Class rings missing. That happened to Haywood "Moe" Smith. So he ordered a new one. Soon after it came, his original ring came out of hiding. Should anyone contemplate replacing a lost ring, get in touch with Moe. "Save the whales, collect a whole set."

A phone call to Ed Mason brings news that both he and Helen are spending too much time in hospital beds. Do remember them in your prayers as well as Dick Laning, Miles Libbey and Father Heath.

"Monday is an awful way to spend one seventh of your life."

Bill Scott and Ruth Henry

Farewells Just in is the sad news that CAPT Neil Hartman Fisher died on 2 December 1999 in Thousand Oaks, CA, after a long illness.

To Freda, loving friends and family, we, his Classmates, send our deep-felt condolences.

George Kittredge and Dick Laning

Lucian Hunt sent this picture of Dick Laning giving George Kittredge last minute advice before George takes off in his new ultra-light one seater.

Lucian also reported that he enjoyed a long visit with Greg Bill, his OKLAHOMA shipmate.

Fortunately both missed being on board OKLAHOMA when the Pearl Harbor attack took place. Greg went on to DD duty, then became an electronics specialist and retired on 20. In retirement Greg worked all over the world.

We hope he will regale us with fresh new adventure stories when we gather in June at Annapolis.

From all your Classmates, Greg, welcome back into the fold.

"What is a zebra? 26 sizes larger than an A bra."

Here are several photos of '40 members enjoying life in the new century.

Front: John Lacouture, Betty Bowell and Jo Gray; Rear: Bill Scott, Ted Hill, John Chase and Ed Sledge

L to r: Joan Healey, Eloise and John Chase, Helen (Vogel) Maulsby

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On 17 February, Daniel Oscar Blevins Jr. died in Hickory, NC. No details are yet available.

Address and Phone Changes Moved: Nesbitts, 6219 Fellowship Rd., Basking Ridge, NJ 07920; 908-580-9519; fax: 908-580-1574.

All the correct email addresses for every '40 emailer are provided in the "to" part each time a JAKEGRAM is sent.

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Chmn & Sec'y: CAPT Victor Delano, USN (Ret.) 5610 Wisconsin Ave., Apt # 1409 Chevy Chase, MD 20815-4439 h: 301-215-7532 e: Vdelano@aol.com The Febraary reunion at Ponte Vedra was another delightful affair. All the happy attendees were unanimously grateful to Mary Love and Gray Strum for all their great effort and they even brought in clear, bright, cool weather. Of course, the Strams had help from the other Classmates in the area like the Elliotts, Styers, Welchs, Wolfes, and Frank Edwards. If I have left someone out, please forgive me—all of you did a wonderful job.

Coming from the farthest North were Tiny and Bob Baughan from Pennsylvania; from the farthest South were Leslie and Mac Nicholson from Miami; and from the farthest West were Mil and Bill Jones, Sinbad Malcolm, Pat Murphy, RoUo Rieve and Vic Rowney all from Califomia.

While discussing the coming 60th, more expressed an interest in attending Midshipmen's classes than had so indicated on the questionnaire sent out last winter. That questionnaire was a preliminary test to get a feel for the numbers attending so Rusty Crenshaw could move ahead with his planning. Rest assured that you will have another chance to indicate the events you wish to participate in during the 60th

Gerry Balls and Styers

If you are on the Interact you can see some other pictures on our home page: http:// pages.prodigy.net/jvbartlett. By the time this is printed, we may have a better, more simple address, but the one just given will work for now. If you are on the Interact, take a look at our Home page. If you are not, I encourage you to join in. If you have trouble handling computers, send for your grandchildren or borrow someone else's to bring you into cyberspace. In my case, I get help from my son and my daughter and one grandchild.

Together they solve problems that "help" cannot solve—for me. I really do encourage you to get on the Intemet no matter how hard it may seem at first. If you have a grandchild or a friend's grandchild, you can do it!

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Plans for the 60th are moving along. Remember the questionnaire that was sent out last year? Here is what has been compiled from the answers so far: Classmates and widows responding, 121 Planning to attend, 78 Staying at Marriott Waterfront, 61 Planning on Dinner Cruise, 131 I know you've read about the wonderful accompUshments of Doris and Stu Jones' granddaughter, Christy. Now I have a picmre of the lovely, talented young lady with her Navy grandparents, John Becker '35 and Stu, who tells me that two more talented grandchildren are on the way with one already at Stanford.

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John Becker '35. Christy Jones and Stu Jones '41 Archie Kelley sent in a picture taken at the Annual Christmas Ball in Scottsdale, AZ, for Midshipmen and Cadets of the Naval, Military, Air Force, Coast Guard and Merchant Marine academies. This black-tie affair is hosted every year by parents of the five Academies. A few older Alumni are invited to witness that the federal law prohibiting alcoholic beverage consumption by Indians and Midshipmen is strictiy enforced. MIDN James Vandevoort '03, in the picture, was a principal appointee of Sen. John McCain '58. After meeting the Midshipmen, both Kelleys were convinced that the millennium Navy will be in good hands.

In Febraary, the Kelleys boarded the P&O line's VICTORIA in Southampton for an eastbound circumnavigation taking in 30 ports and 45 tourist spots. Archie said that their cabin was about the size of the one he and I shared aboard WEST VIRGINIA before Pearl Harbor which, after the 70 day craise will be a real test of their marriage, to say nothing of a foreign language (British) and no Starbucks coffee.

ment, worked as a Blue & Gold Officer, assisting high school students gain entry to the Naval Academy. For this work he received several citations as well as "The Commandant's Award" and being named "Outstanding Blue & Gold Officer for the state of Texas." To his family of three sons, a daughter, ten grandchildren and eight grand-grandchildren go our most sincere condolences.

Now, about those birthdays in May, whose birthstone is the emerald which signifies love and success. Qualified recipients are: Gerry Ball, Conger, Deller, Doherty, Engle, Dick Hill, Holdt, Bill Jones, Landreth, MacKinnon, Naymark, Nelson, Reinhardt, Shelley, Spore, Styer, Svendsen and Chan Wright. If you do not feel up to a toast, send them a rose or two, the flower of the month of May. East Carolina University has kindly offered to print and distribute a revised Class Roster which I am sure is welcome news to all of you. If you have not yet received your copy of the new Roster, here are some changes for the old roster that are included in the new Roster: Ev Hopkins' email: tophop@ucnsb.net; Leon Grabowsky can be reached through Joanne at: Jgrabowsky@earthlink.net; Ev Malcolm's correct address is 7542 Portree Drive, San Jose, CA 95135, 408-532-6552; Dick Wright's email: VagabondW@aol.com.

If your travels ever take you near Greenville, NC, please take the time to visit their library which houses Class of '41 papers. Don Lennon still oversees our collection and welcomes visitors. Those who have already visited have found it most worthwhile. And while you are there, please thank them for the new Roster and their splendid work with the Class papers.

42 Carol Kelley, James Vandevoort 03, Archie Kelley '41 Betty (Joe) Taussig sent the Class a gracious note thanking Joe's Classmates for their help after Joe's death, including the beautiful service at the Naval Academy Chapel. I know that we all wish Betty well and hope that she continues the work she has started on the book about the Class.

January was a particularly sad month for me, as I am sure it was for others. E d Svensen's wife, Abbie, died after a determined straggle with cancer of the throat.

Abbie was a tme '41 wife who hardly ever missed a Class event and always added to those she attended. She and Ed were among the most loyal of Navy football followers and you always knew that Navy was Abbie's team. Her delightful presence will be sorely missed and her family has every bit of our sympathy and understanding in this sad loss.

Also in January, we lost our former Classmate, O m a r Keller, also from cancer. Omar served 20 years in the Navy and, after retire-

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Annual Membership: 34% Life Membership: 50%

Pres: CAPT James D. Small, USN (Ret.) Sec'y; CDR R.S. Day, USN (Ret.) 2426 Chestnut St., Falls Church, VA 22043-3052 Will start the column off on a somewhat lighter note than last month.

In February, forty-nine Classmates, widows and guests gathered at the Fort Myer Officers' Club on Wednesday, 9 February for the annual Washington-Annapolis area Saint Valentine's Day luncheon. Class President Jim Small welcomed the assembled group, thanked Bill Montgomery for arranging the affair, and called on Hap Day to ask a blessing before the meal. (Hap may have missed his calling.) Following the meal of London broil, garden salad and chocolate mousse, we were entertained by a quartet from the Alexandria Harmonizers, a world class choral group based in Alexandria, VA. The group presented a short program, then, following selection of Cindy James as the year 2000 Sweetheart of the Year, led the men in our customary singing of "Let Me Call You Sweetheart," which concluded the festivities.

Bob Conner and Ruth Opp Attending were Emily and Jim Alexander; Ann Beale; Kay Cole; Bob Connor; Joan and Richard Curtis; Hap Day; Trilby and Max Duncan; Jeanne and Duke Easton; Ann Haffey; Peggy and Bunky Herndon; Bill Houser with guest Jan Evans; Cindy and Jack James; Angelique Kidd; Betty and Ace King; Jo Ann and Jerry Miller; Kieran and Jack Mitchell; Marion and Bill Montgomery; Muff and Norm Nash; Edie and Frank O'Brien; Ruth Opp; Shine Payne; Rufe Porter; Barbara and Dale Reed; Anne and Bill Richardson; Martha and Pappy Sims; Peggy and Jim Small; Martha Jane and Charlie Smith; Jane and Bob Stahl; and Carol and Hal Wynne. (As reported by Bill Montgomery.)

Not to be outdone, John Davis, our West Coast reporter, reported that although Valentine's Day arrived in San Diego along with a rare drizzle, it did not dampen the enthusiasm of the 25 Classmates, wives and widows at their Sweetheart Luncheon on 14 February. It was arranged by Barbara and Dick Sewall at the San Diego Yacht Club. A "no host" bar from 11:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. provided the setting for the retelling of old tales and reliving of old memories. A lunch with three salads, chicken, shrimp, and tuna, and a great strawberry cream dessert was enjoyed at tables decorated by Barbara Sewall and Alnora Bishop.

The balloons at each table were anchored

by Dick and Charlie's old white service buttons, a great idea for using previously useless items. Ed Gallagher led the impressive singing of "Let Me Call You Sweetheart."

Attending were Barbara and Dick Sewall; Alnora and Charlie Bishop; Dodie and John Drew; Dottie and Maino des Granges; Bee and Don Holmes; Harriett Tichenor; Lethia Moeller and Willie Weber; Mary Ann and George McFetridge; Ed Gallagher and Mary Vamer; Dottie Wiggins; Dorothy Howard and Sammy McMullen; Mindy and Gene Farrell; Nancy and Frank Knight; and Odette and John Davis.

Don Wilson, who with Bunky Herndon roomed with Dick Arey, recalled that in each of his two sons' years at the Naval Academy they were hosted by Dick and his wife in their Chatham, VA, home on the many occasions when they felt the need to get away from the Academy grounds and relax. In those days, their home in Louisiana was too far away for short visits.

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Walt Brandon is our only '42 rep in the Columbia, SC, area and reports that things continue to rock along. He is still working part time for an engineering consulting firm in Columbia. He is a member of the South Carolina Midlands Alumni Chapter which meets every couple of months and provides a valuable contact with Navy friends.

Parker Armstrong wrote to correct my geographical reference to the location of their Vicar's Landing home. They are actually living in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL, not Pensacola.

He and Jean remain active and well and see the Moellers and Miles periodically as they exchange visits either at Vicar's Landing or Fleet Landing. Grips and Lynn hosted a great Christmas party at their Fleet Landing home which included the Armstrong's and Sue and Bob Mills.

Bill Brewster, writing from his Jekyll Island, GA, home, sent along a Christmas photo from his old roommate. Bill Houser, which gave evidence of Bill's masculinity and vitality which Brewster heretofore had considered to be only average for a member of the Class of '42. Obviously, it is surpassed by Martha and Pappy Sims. In addition to Bill the photo includes his three daughters, their husbands (all were former naval officers), and four of his six grandchildren. Betty Lou shared Bill's pride in their family before her untimely death.

Bill Vose reminds everyone that if you are in the Hampton Roads area on the last Tuesday of any month (except December) plan to join the longest sitting Class luncheon group for a "Cure the ills of the world session." They meet at NAS Oceana about 11:30 a.m. in front of the Main Bar TV. Should your wives be with you, the '42 gals meet at various places at the same time. Mary Vose (757-499-7295) should be able to provide any '42 lady with the location and directions. Y'all come!

Once again, we urge every Classmate who has access to the intemet to take a minute and forward your email address to me at hapday@erols.com. Frank Andrews has done a masterful job of setting up our Class Web site, but we have less than 50 Classmates with whom we are in touch on a regular basis. As we find more and more Classmates and wives passing away, we would like to be able to advise as many as possible as quickly as possible. There is also a great deal of general Class news from West Coast reporter John Davis, East Coast reporter Bill Vose, and At Large reporter Rufe Porter. We also

have six commentators providing special articles on naval affairs and items of interest from the USA and around the world. The sky is really the limit. You may reach Frank Andrews at fandrews@annapolis.net John Drew sent me an eight-page, oversized brochure covering the southem California contingent's important support of the Navy warriors against Army which we had noted in an earlier column. The 16 annotated photos clearly chronicled that the group has not lost its talent for having fun. In fact, they enjoyed themselves so much in their new venue that they have elected to hold their monthly meetings at the Rancho Bernardo Country Club and eat beans for Saturday breakfast for the indefinite future.

The Alumni Association has reported that a routine mailing to Colby Springer had been returned with the notation that he had died two years ago (probably in 1998). We have no further details as the Alumni Association felt that the mail had been retumed by either his son or daughter.

Thus, the sands in the hour glass continue to fall incessantly. Trigger Esler passed away on 18 Febraary surrounded by Winnie, their five children and their spouses, and several grandchildren. He had been in a nursing home for nearly two years and lost cognition shortly after being admitted. Following the funeral mass, Winnie hosted a reception at her Cooper Hall residence, where Trigger's memory was appropriately toasted. Then they bundled up and embarked in two boats carrying his ashes up the Wanda River. Their two sons lowered the um (so it wouldn't splash) while a dear friend read "Crossing the Bar" and a wreath was dropped.

On Tuesday, 15 Febraary, Chet Lee underwent open heart surgery at the Washington Hospital Center. As I had undergone a similar procedure more than ten years ago, we had discussed it during our last meeting a few weeks before and he was mentally prepared for the surgery and not overly concemed. The operation appeared to have been successful and he was back in his room on Wednesday, alert and looking forward to a complete recovery. Very early Thursday morning, he suffered a major heart problem which robbed him of oxygen to his brain. After CPR he was moved to the ICU where the doctors found that his condition was irreversible and that he would not survive if taken off life support.

Chet had told the family on Monday that he did not want to live if only heroic measures

would keep him alive. With his three children and eight of his nine grandchildren in loving attendance (his remaining grandson is a LTJG stationed in San Diego), they anguished over the final decision while they conferred with specialists and weighed their responsibility to honor their father's request.

On Wednesday aftemoon, 23 Febraary, the breathing tube was removed and he slipped away in less than two minutes without pain or further suffering. His beloved wife, Rose, has been living in the Arleigh Burke Pavilion in McLean, VA, for several years with Alzheimers.

A memorial mass was held on 13 March at the Navy Chapel in Bethesda attended by his Classmates, his fellow NASA associates and his many friends, followed by interment in Arlington National Cemetery.

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Pres: CAPT E. A. Robie USN (Ret.) 2111 River Crescent Drive, Annapolis, MD 21401 h: 410-224-0850; e: edrobie@aol.com Sec'y: CAPT "Jack" Van Ness Jr., USN (Ret.) 7108 Broxburn Dr., Bethesda, MD 20817 h: 301-320-4564; w: 202-357-3762 e: Jvanness43@aol.com Jim Holloway Designated Distinguished Graduate The Naval Academy Alumni Association, for the purpose of identifying to the public, the Alumni of the Naval Academy and the Brigade of Midshipmen, has established the Distinguished Graduate Award. This honor is awarded to graduates of the Naval Academy who have demonstrated a strong interest in supporting the Naval Academy and the Navy, have provided a lifetime of service to the nation or armed forces, and have made significant and distinguished contributions to the nation via their public service.

The first recipient of this prestigious award, initiated in 1999, was ADM Thomas H. Moorer '33.

This year, with a large reservoir of outstanding graduates to select from, the Selection Committee named five graduates to be so designated. One of the five so designated is our own classmate, Jim Holloway!

Jim was nominated to be a Distinguished Graduate by our Class President, Ed Robie, and although there is not sufficient space here to repeat all of the compelling factors of Jim's illustrious career that resulted in his selection, here are just a few impressive facts (there are many more not mentioned here): Jim served 39 years on active duty, and has followed this with 22 years of advocacy of the importance of sea power; Has served at sea in destroyers in World War II, infighteraircraft in the Korean War, and as commanding officer of ENTERPRISE

in the Vietnam War; Was selected and served as Chief of Naval Operations and member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Houser family

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Served on a number of commissions, boards, foundations, and associations, often at the request of the president or vice president; Received more than 40 awards, medals, and decorations, including two Defense DSMs, and four (repeat four) Navy DSMs, a DFC, three Air Medals, and a Bronze Star with Combat V, plus decorations from Germany, Italy, and Japan.

Your writer asked members of our Class if they recalled any specific activities of Jim that indicated that he was "destined for stardom."

Here are two comments: From Classmate Frank Dailey: As Midshipmen, we saw what a fierce competitor Jim was in sports and in sailing.

My view is that his outstanding personal quahty is loyalty. Long before hisriseto high places, Jim demonstrated his caring attention and tmstinting support to those around him. That capacity to make a difference in his associations close at hand provided the foimdation for the greataess he has demonstrated in the larger environment.

From Classmate and "Roomie" Ferdy Gressard: In our room the last two years at the Naval Academy, it was not Jim Holloway whom we foresaw being the CNO, it was our third roommate. Bill Maxson. Jim and I even shared in-charge-of-room duties to help Bill complete his three years with no demerits!

But in retrospect, Jim's determination, ready wit, congenial manner, and his devotion to the Navy boded well for his Navy career. But, to me, his best move was his choice of the lovely lady who became his wife. Behind the scenes, Dabney was the perfect wife for a CNO. Separately, several Classmates were asked what their reaction was to hearing the news of Jim's selection as a Distinguished Graduate. Here is what they said: Shack Moore: "Jim Holloway's exceptional service to the Navy and the Nation surely merits his selection as a most Distinguished Graduate of the Naval Academy. BZ to the Board!"

John Lobdell: "It is encouraging to see this overdue recogiution of Jim's superb achievements."

Chuck Pendleton: "Great newsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;well deserved!"

Lou 'Rittle: "Jim is most deserving of this honor and we are all happy for him and his selection."

Moose Grossetta: "He deserves the honor."

Congrafiilatioiis to the ^ Class of 2000!

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He's on the Board Those of you who read the magazine Business Week, may have read the cover story of the issue dated 29 September 1999. If so, did you see a familiar face in the illustration on page 115? It was of Classmate Jim Holloway, still going strong!

The cover story was about the many smart companies in the United States who are beginrung to discover the great value of making the best use of experienced executives in selected positions, including boards of directors. These executives have knowledge and judgement that they have accumulated and sharpened during decades of service in competitive environments. Often they are too valuable to be allowed to retire completely, so are offered positions where they can work part time, or consult, or advise.

The Chairman of Castle Harlan Inc., John Castle, is one person who has found a way to gain good govemance by tapping into a rich vein of executive talent. And that is where Jim, with his long and versatile experience, is continuing to contribute. He has been appointed by Mr. Castle to the Board of Statia Terminals Group, a petroleum storage company, using the knowledge, experiences, and judgment accumulated during his lifetime of service and achievements.

Saint James School This is the third story that features our Classmate Jim Holloway, and it is such a warm story that I just hope that I can do it justice. It started when one of my sons told me that he had read about ADM Holloway in the Hagerstown, MD, Morning Herald. He added that the story was about the replacement of a Medal of Honor at Saint James School, and that he would send me the front page of the Morning Herald.

This he did, and there, on the front page, was a photo of our Jim. I then tried to call the Saint James School in Hagerstown, but their phone was not listed. (Of course it wasn't.

Saint James School is in Saint James, MD!) This story now divides into two parts.

Please follow closely.

Part 1 concerns Jim and Saint James School, a small but mighty prep school of just over 200 students total. I leamed that Jim had graduated from Saint James in 1939. In remarks made at the school in the Spring of 1999, Jim said: I was always indebted to the school for two reasons. The first was what it gave me academically.

He credits small class sizes, caring teachers, and the boarding atmosphere for his academic success.

At Saint James, if I needed additional work in a subject, the teachers were available to help me. I leamed that no subject is difficult if you leam enough about it so that by studying you enjoy leaming more about it.

The second reason Jim gives was the self assurance he gained as a student at Saint James: Because Saint James was a small school, we all had to participate in all activities.

On the football field, I went up against players from larger schools. But I found that, on the football field, they really weren't

much better than I was when it came to putting your heart and soul into the job.

Jim served on the Board of Trustees of the school for a number of years, and served as Chairman from 1989 to 1999. Upon his retirement, the headmaster of the school announced the establishment of an endowed scholarship. The Holloway Legacy for Excellence, endowed in honor of Jim and in memory of his son, James L. Holloway IV '63, and awarded to a student who is distinguished in three ways: academic study, athletic endeavor, and leadership for good.

Now to Part 2 of this story. One of the graduates of Saint James in 1949 was Donn Porter, who became an Army sergeant during the Korean War. On 7 September 1952, during this war, two enemy platoons attacked Sergeant Porter's outpost. Porter repelled two enemy attacks, and in the second attack "jumped from his position with bayonet fixed and, meeting the onslaught and in close combat, killed six hostile soldiers and routed the attack." Porter was killed by an enemy artillery shell while retuming to his outpost.

In 1953, Congress awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously to Donn Porter, and Porter's family donated the medal to the school, to be on display there. But, in about 1982, the medal was stolen.

Obtaining a replacement for such a distinguished decoration is not easy, but after a long effort, and special help from Congressman Robert Ehrlich, the stolen medal was replaced by the United States Govemment on 2 December 1999, and accepted on behalf of the school by our Classmate, Jim Holloway!

We all owe both Donn Porter and Jim Holloway a salute, but, on reflection, we also should honor Saint James School, which produces such men, and obviously "does things right."

Christmas Ball '99 Once again the USNA Classes 1939-1953 held their Annual Christmas Ball at the Bethesda Naval Club. As always, the event featured good food, friendship and fellowship, and that incomparable music of the 1940s. Classmates attending were: Jane Beaver and Ralph Mayer, Ruth Ann Bress, Phyllis and Cliff Gates, Jan and John Dudley, Patty and Ed Robie, Hazel and Bob Greenwood, Bimey Saunders and George Grkovic, Fran Hudson and Bob Hansen, Squidge and Dave Holmes, Jane and Les Heselton, Betty and Dick Madson, Milly and John T. Shepherd, Charlie Smyers, Sue and Jack Van Ness, Daphne Holmquist and Lou TXittle, Virgie and Dick Zimermann.

Throughout the entire evening, all of us could sense the unseen presence of our late Classmate Hank Bress, who had worked so hard over the years making the Annual Christmas Ball the warm, special event that it has always been.

The Anastasions' Plan for the Future The following comes from a letter sent in by our Classmate Steve Anastasion: Charlotte and I are now a few days into the next phase of our lives. At the last stroke of midnight on 31 December 1999,1 retired 65

from directing the activities of the international Council of Academies of Engineering and Technological Sciences and have become an "Emeritus." It was a great 15 years, the last of which exemplified the whole period. During 1999, we made visits to Argentina and Uruguay, to the Czech Republic, Spain, France, Portugal, and Sweden. The organization began with five engineering academies in 1985 and by 1999 had grown to 22 members.

Steve included several photos, two of which are included with this article just to show the breadth of Charlotte and Steve's interests. The first was taken during the 85th anniversary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, the world's oldest engineering academy. The second was taken in the wilds of North Carolina, at a place named Chocowinity, in the Krispy Kreme Donut emporium.

"So now, in residence in McLean, VA, we're casting about for reinforcing hobbies and such." And Steve then described their adventures in two bowling leagues and a friendly poker group.

Steve and Charlotte, best wishes as you enter these new and uncharted waters!

2. Fenton had a mini-stroke in September, and spent five days in the hospital, but tests could not indicate a definite cause. But Fenton decided it was a "message from On High," so a few changes in lifestyle have been made.

3. The church of Peggy and Fenton announced: "The Fenton and Peggy Smith Youth Facility is open and provides the youth of our parish with a place to gather for fellowship, study and worship. The facility was named for the Smiths because of their faithful support of our youth over the years."

Nice going, Peggy and Fenton!

Travel of the Tom Smiths Pat and Tom Smith reported that they had two interesting trips in 1999. The first was special—a trip to Portugal and Spain in May. They visited the countryside in Catalonia, from whence Tom's great-grandfather and his kin emigrated to America.

They were caught in the act of leading the group in the singing of Navy Blue and Gold following the game. It was obvious to all those who attended that the Class of 1943 "must have had a Plebe Year," and the rest of us didn't, when they started singing the second verse, and most of us couldn't sing along.

BZ to '43.

Jack Barrett, John Lobdell, and Shack Moore (will: .. "ghostly" image of the Army coach over their shoulders)

Looks Ready for a Cat Shot Norma Pendleton sent in an interesting photo of Chuck Pendleton, all decked out in his flight jacket, white scarf and cap. It seems that Chuck was Chairman of the Navy exhibit at Fleet Landing at JAX on Veterans Day last year. The model is of an A4D of VA12 that Chuck commanded during a deployment on FORRESTAL to the Med.

The Smiths in Toledo, Spain

Early this fall they enjoyed- a hurricaneschased trip from Boston to Halifax to Quebec City and back around the Gaspe to Sydney, St. John, Peggy's Cove and to Boston. "The hurricanes kept us against the dock in Boston for a day, but it was worth the time spent on SPLENDOUR O F THE SEAS to see the

Canada that we did visit."

From Ginny Busik Ginny sent in a photo with a note that read: Bill and I went to Hawaii in November with the President's Circle-USNA Alumni trip. We had five days in Maui followed by five days in Oahu, where we watched Navy play Hawaii in football. We were fortunate to have dinner on MISSOURI with Paul Lacy and Jack Barrett.

Steve and Charlotte in Chocowinity, NC

News from the Fenton Smiths You just have to admire the "get-up-andgo" of Peggy and Fenton Smith. In 1999 they hardly slowed at all. We received a letter of their activities that is a bit too long to include in its entirety, but here are three items: 1. Peggy's alma mater, Florida Southem College, presented her with the Alumni Achievement Award for her exceptional careers as a physicist with the Navy in World War II, as a school teacher and math specialist with a master's degree, and a wife and mother of four, with many community services.

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L to r: Jack Barrett, Bill Busik, Ginny Busik, Paul Lacy

They Remembered all of the Words!

A letter came in from Joe Kavale '68, with a photo that captures—For All Time]—a memorable moment. Here is what our new buddy, Joe, wrote: Enclosed you will find a picture of three of your Classmates Jack Barrett, John Lobdell and Shack Moore that was taken at the Oregon and Southwest Washington Naval Academy Alumni Chapter ArmyNavy Game Party (Victory Celebration) on 4 December 1999.

Chuck Pendleton ready for flight

Norma also has a proud Navy record. She was in the first group of WAVES who came aboard in the Autumn of 1942, and went from Seaman Second Class to Yeoman First Class in one and a half years!

Situation Report Every year your writer receives a well-written card at the end of the year from Classmate Dick Walker, who in recent years has traveled all over the world. With Dick's permission to repeat his thoughts, here is what he wrote this past December: Please join with me in a prayer of thanks for a tolerable 1999. As you may remember, it was in the note I wrote at this time last year that I first mentioned the onset of Parkinson's Disease; arthritis was simply an ongoing but painful knee problem. During the year, the Parkinson's problem slowly increased but was contained by substantial drug therapy; we met the knee problem with radical surgery.

And so we face 2000, temporarily on crutches and with lots of pills. But not complaining. There is much to be thankful for.

Travel this year was contained. There was a week in the sun on Cat Island (Bahamas), and another fine week in New Mexico.

Future trips will depend a lot on recovery, Shipmate, May 2000

but there are plans afoot already. referred to the magazine Saturday Evening Hang in there, Dick. We are with you.

Post, a favorite educational adjunct enjoyed Heads Up! by many a Middle in earlier years. Glad to Heads up for the June '00 Graduation An- have been of assistance, Jane. niversary Luncheon. It will be held at the Tom Rhees was down in Vero Beach enArmy-Navy Country Club in Washington, joying the winter weather in February along D.C, on Wednesday, 21 Jime. Details will be with some more '44ers. On Jack Godfrey's included in a flyer to be distributed in May. birthday, 7 February, at Sanibel, FL. Jack, If there are any questions, call Bob Hansen Tom, Lorin Hay, and Jim Van Pelt and or Fran Hudson at 703-734-9121 after 1 May. spouses got together for dinner to celebrate Navy Blue Jack's 79th. The four guys are lined up in the This wonderful short poem was sent in by same order all appearing in good order in the Classmate Moose Grossetta, and is so good photo Tom sent. it must be shared with all: I might be satisfied if I had never seen The big waves top the foc'sle and race aft white and green.

If r d never felt the wind or heard the lightning hurled Or watched the storm clouds blowing down God's vride expanse of world.

If I'd never served the Flag, or heard the Big Guns roar.

Or worn the Navy Blue, I might be satisGodfrey's 79th Celebration with Rhees, Godfrey, Hay fied ashore. and Van Pelt Closing Classmates, please keep those stories and photos flowing in. I'm particularly looking for stories about: -Experiences of Classmates in Typhoon Cobra on 18 December 1944.

-Collisions at sea.

-Submarine actions on war patrol.

-Stories from our Youngster Cnuse in 1940.

Please remember that the Class Column depends to a very large extent on the information (including photos) that you send in.

Please share your experiences, activities, and plans with your Classmates. And...thanks in advance for your help.

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Bill Bennett sent an interesting old photo of a prep school group taken on Duke of Gloucester Street in Annapolis, in the Spring of 1940. All the subjects in the photo were attending United States Naval Academy Preparatory School on Prince George Street, but they were living in houses that were close to Mrs. Alexander's where the photo was snapped. Fritz Rau gets credit for sending the photo to Bill, who had it highlighted and enlarged to make it good enough for presentation here in Shipmate. Bill would identify all but one of the group, whom I am guessing could be Dave Warnerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;help us if you can, anybody. Left to right in the front are: Fritz Rau, Walt Lessman, Bob Osth, Jack Stetson, and Bud Ochenrider; in the back row are: Bill Bennett, ??? , Jim Miller, and Joe Shippen (with the cigarette). The identities are concurred by your secretary. They were a pretty good looking bunch of yoiing fellows.

George Peery's good wife. Peg, had the photography duty at the last home football game at Navy-Marine Corps Stadium against Tulane on 13 November 1999. She sent the fine photos taken that day at the tailgating.

Annual Membership: 37% Life Membership: 45%

Pres: CAPT Henry S. Barbour, USN (Ret.) AnnapoUs Rep: CAPT Jack E. Godfrey, USN (Ret) Sec'y: CAPT Wynn V. Whidden, USN (Ret.) 6156 Loch Raven Drive, McLean, VA 22101-3132 Mail Bag The late Jim Stevens' daughter-in-law, Jane Stevens '83, wrote to thank us for printing her request for a '44 Lucky Bag and to report that Ted Gilliland had offered her one.

We would like to inform her, if someone else has not done so, that "S.E.P.," as mentioned as an addiction of Jim's in his Lucky Bag bio.

www.usnaxom Bringing the| Alumni Association Jane and Fred Schnurr, Peg Perry, Whidden, Bo Shnurr and his wife Shipmate, May 2000

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Pres: CDR Everett Parke, USN (Ret.) Secy: CDR Robert O. Sherman, USN (Ret.) 1110 N. Pegram St., Alexandria, VA 22304-1928 h: 703-370-5867; e: rosherm@aol.com In Memoriam Classmate George A. Eriksen, died on 2 Febraary 2000 in Tryon, NC, where he had settled after retiring from NASA in the early 1980s. He is survived by his wife, Kitty, and children. Dee, Christopher and Nancy. We are grateful to Erik Eriksen '81, who notified us of George's passing. Erik added that Eep Wilson was George's roommate at the Academy.

Association Business The annual Sweetheart Meeting was held at Fort Meyer Officer's Club. Honored guests were Eugenia Braun, Gloria Lipfert, Jean Losure, Martha Aim Mize, Helen Rowson, Betty Schmeltzer, and Bee Ullyot. The speaker was Mr. Jack Lorenz, conservationist, author and humorist. Remember, send your stories and anecdotal history to Dick Van Orden, for his book relating 60 years with '45.

The Way We Are We have pictures. Bob McCrary sends pictures of the Southern California Valentine's day luncheon at the Aviara Four Seasons Hotel in Carlsbad, CA. There were 39 attendees. Picture credits go to Bill Traynor.

Sam Gorsline, Don Edge, Beth Pooman and Aim Gorsline

Joann Riley, Raye and Bob Lenson, and Evelyn Kleber

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Frank Kleber and Bill Benson

The Way We Were Mark Tremaine, beginning his spring cleaning early, came across the accompanying clipping from an old Buffalo newspaper displaying the pictures of six westem New York men who received their commissions on 7 June 1944. Wish that we could freeze time and keep such youth forever.

About a year ago, Sam Gorseline sent a copy of the accompanying photo. Fred Kelley, also beginning his spring cleaning early, came across another copy, this one saved by his mother. February has proved to be a quiet monthâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a good time to display the spirit of '45. Tom Brokaw has labeled us the greatest generation. We did know exactly what we were fighting for. The couple, by the way, has been living happily ever after, although there are days when she would cheerfiilly give him away.

Mary Lou and Bill Bennett

Secretary's Comer Once again, there being a severe lack of news input from all your Classmates, we will print a few additional email addresses to add to those published in April and provided to you by mail from Hank Barbour. Name CDR John M. Prosser (jmprosser(g redshift.com), CAPT Wayne D. Surface (wsurfacel(§san.rr.com), CAPT William R. Wakeland (wrwake@worldnet.att.net), Mr. Charles D.Walker (navyvet(gtheramp.net).

By the time you read this Spring will have about sprang out and May flowers will be about to hold forth all their glory. Peace to youall...WVW

Ann McCrary, Midge and Art Levy, and Bob McCrary

Six WNY Men Receive Annapolis Commissions Wj.

p. G. Belerl S. M. Cooley R. J. Dzikowekl IR. J. Rowson Six westem New York men receive Annapolis commissions

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The Spirit of '45

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Pres: VADM Charies H. Griffiths, USN (Ret.) Vice Pres and Annapolis Factotum: CAPT Jim W. Foust, USN (Ret.) 1914 Sleepy Hollow Lane, Annapohs, MD 21401 w: 800-334-5701 Treas: CAPT Wils E Engel, USN (Ret.) 6807 Rosewood St., Annandale, VA 22003 h: 703-256-5832 Sec'y: Clete Kennelly 7911 Sleaford Place, Bethesda, MD 20814-4625 h; 301-654-7315 Corr. Sec'y and Chairman 55th Reunion: CAPT Ed EUis, USN (Ret) PO. Box 921117, San Diego, CA 92192 h: 858-278-8665; f: 619-576-0979 e: edmhe@aoI.com William R. Casey (10) reported that he enjoyed the article about Ireland by Chuck Griffiths (6) and Dick Wilson (2) in the January-Febraary 2000 issue. This was brought about, no doubt, by his previous experiences in freland. He said that at one time, he was a partner in a group that owned Ashford Castle in Cong, County Mayo (the site of the movie "The Quiet Man") and that, along with his old colleague, Paddy Finnegan, from Dublin, he had been a part owner of a soccer team in freland's premier league and a tracking and long shoreman business. Also, he was active in Irish politics for a while and was offered an Irish passport. Unfortunately, in this same letter Bill reported that he is unable to attend the 55th because of a conflict with his 60th reunion at Andover. As a result he cancelled his reservations at the Hotel Del. However, on another subject. Bill reminded me that the next Navy-Notre Dame game will be played in Orlando, FL, on 15 October. Travel plans for that game are outlined on page 54 in the January-Febraary 2000 Shipmate.

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Former New York Court of Appeals Judge Stewart F. Hancock (13) was honored at the New York State Bar Association President's Dinner on Saturday, January 29, 2000, as a recipient of that organization's annual Gold Medal Award. It recognizes distinguished service in the field of law and is the highest honor that the state bar can bestow on a member of the legal profession. The judge served as a local Supreme Court justice from 1971 to 1977, when he was appointed by Gov. Hugh Carey to serve in the Court's Appelate Division in Rochester, NY. In 1986, Gov. Mario Cuomo appointed him to the Court of Appeals, the state's highest court, in Albany, NY, where he served until 1993. Currently, he is in private practice with the firm of Hancock and Estabrook, where he specializes in appellate practice, mediation and domestic and international commercial arbitration.

Additionally, he is a visiting professor and jurist in residence at the Syracuse University College of Law. In receiving the Gold Medal Award, Stew joins a very distinguished group of former recipients which includes John Foster Dulles, Cyras R. Vance, Sol M. Linowitz and U.S. Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsberg, William J. Brennan Jr., Thurgood Marshall, Potter StewÂŁut, and Lewis F. Powell Jr. In spite of his very busy schedule. Stew is serving as the Company Coordinator for the 13th Company for our 55th. He plans to join us in Coronado. What about you?

In a follow-on to the compilation of information on '46ers who have been published, I can now add the names of John "Swede" Hansen (11) and Ted Mouton (15). Swede is a published author of poetry and short stories. As a member of the Williamsburg Poetry Guild, he joined with his fellow members in compiling a commemorative book of poetry honoring the tricentennial of that city.

It was sponsored by the city's govemment and sold at many of the local book stores. Also, last fall, he published his first complete book of poetry and short stories entitled When We Are One. It covered his poetic efforts from his Midshipman days at the Naval Academy (including two poems published in the Trident). For his work he was humorously dubbed, "the poet laureate of the Class of '46," a title that occasioned much rabbing from his roommates. He went on to say that his last effort was good therapy for him and he is pleased to report that he's doing rather well in the market place.

Ted Mouton reported that he collaborated with Paul Schratz '39 on a five part series that appeared in Shipmate on real estate and insurance for the JO; at least, that was his purpose. He wrote a story on YMS days entitled, "One Tour in a Mackeral Taxi and How It Grew," which appeared in the April 1964 issue of U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings. As a result of this story, he received a letter from retired RADM Dan Gallery (of Saturday Evening Post fame). Ted's story was about a group of '46ers in 1945 who were "shanghaied" from the U.S. Navy into a bunch of wooden minesweepers, then on both coasts of the U.S., after only one month or so of

training. Ted was one of those "luckies" and was, simultaneously, CO of YMS 416 and XO of YMS 404. Other stalwart '46ers in this group, several of whom subsequently achieved flag rank, were Joe Ahearn (15), Ardi Burki (6), Dick Geaney (18), Jim Forrest (14), Fred Koch (9), Buzz Pearson (4), Paul Wagner (15), Jocko Sutherland (7), Ted and others whom Ted has forgotten; "not their deeds of daring do, but names only."

Just one sea story on it all. One night a dedicated group rendezvoused at the NAS Agana O'Club on Guam (our homeport) and discovered a dance being held there attended by officers and wives stationed there. After a due amount of libation, we noticed that a jitterbug dance contest (first prize a bottle of Old Grandad) was in progress and two '46ers leaped to their feet from our table and joined the crowd on the floor. Surprisingly (or not depending upon how much you imbibed) they were announced as winners. With much ado from the crowd the prize was presented to the two (you'll note that their names are but dim memories) and we all sat back to muse over their good fortune.

Along came the duty watch officer (a lieutenant commander) from the air station who had been awakened from a sound sleep by a disgruntled loser who demanded that the booty be handed back and it was disgusting to see, etc. The bellowing from the table full of Ensigns was getting louder by the second with the duty officer shouting louder than the Ensigns, when, suddenly one of the Ensigns not in the argument stood erect (i.e. not hanging on with his hands) and said to the lieutenant commander: "Commander do you know what I'd tell you if I was in this argument?" Startled the lieutenant commander said: "Why no. What would you say?" The answer came like a flash from the still upright and he said: "I'd tell you to bite my derriere." The Shore Patrol arrived shortly afterwards. What days of glory.

The last bit of authoring that Ted attempted was in September 1980 Proceedings again.

This time it was titled, "The Right Aircraft at the Wrong Time," a discourse on the S-3, shortly after it joined the Fleet. At the time, Ted was the Director of Integrated Logistics Support for the S-3.

We have received the following sad news concerning members of our '46 Family. Mrs. Nancy U. Ashley called the Alumni Association on 11 Febraary to report that her husband, Donn Ashley (15), passed away on 1 Febraary. We have no other information.

The letter containing the 55th Gold Registration/Reservation Form addressed to Dr. Ernest A. Bouveron (16) was returned by the Post Office marked "Deceased." No other information is available. His last known address was 5708 Wood Creek Lane, Centreville, VA 20120.

Montford T. "MT" Johnson (8) died on 23 December 1999 in Amarillo, TX, with his immediate family at his bedside. In addition to his many civic and business involvements, MT's lifelong love of golf brought him national recognition as a member of the executive committee of the U.S. Golf Association,

the governing body of amateur golf in the U.S. He is survived by his wife, Virgina Johnson; a son, three daughters, 12 grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Memorials may be made to the Presbyterian Childrens' Home, 3400 Bowie St. or Faith City Mission, 401 SE Second Ave., both in Amarillo, TX. George Pavis (19) reported that Bea's and his only son died of non-Hodgkins lymphoma. He had been sick for some time and this was not unexpected. However, this is particularly sad because in the scheme of life we older folk cu^e expected to pass-on before our children.

Mrs. Betty Patton, the widow of Hugh B. Patton(13)hasdied.

The deepest sympathies of the Class are extended to the survivors of each of the foregoing.

Wick and Joyce Harlan, Fran and Jim Weirich The one photo with this column shows, Joyce and Wick Harlan and Fran and Jim Weirich at the Navy-Air Force game in Redskins stadium in Washington, D.C. The men were 17th Company roommates. Jim's comment on the back of the photo: "Maybe we should stay at home. Everytime we go to a Navy game, we lose." Makes me think that they didn't attend that delightful Army-Navy game last December So, for all Alumni, I say: "Thank you."

Registrations and reservations for the 55th are rolling in steadily and our Registrar, Ted Dibble (18) and his assistant, Luke Maples (20) are quite busy. Incidentally, Ted's address is 878 Calle Yucca, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360-2588. His phone number is 805-4988835, if you have any questions on registration. An unfortunate goof on the Gold Form in not specifying how to handle and account for the Advance Deposit when sending in the form has resulted in confusion and added to the workload for the Registrar and our Treasurer, Corliss Nugent (2). 1 apologize to all.

Unfortunately, but as expected with the early requested information on possible attendance, we've received a number of letters, phone calls and email messages from Classmates saying they can't join us at the 55th.

Those who have said this, so far (as of 29 Febraary) are: Mike Boyer (11), Bill Casey (10), Wils Engel (4), Tom Faulders (5), Al Foster (10), Doc Johnson (4), Dick Knight (4), Red Layton (12), Burr Wilcox (10), and Lee Zeni (3). However, we've received registrations from other Classmates who had not previously told us that they planned to attend.

The latest Class mailing with the 55th Registration/Reservation Form has disclosed that we do not have a valid current address for Joseph J. Armao (3). His last known address 70

was 1449 Country Club Lane, Springfield, PA 19064.

Although this is being written at the end of February, you'll be reading it in May. That means, in one month, we can look forward to seeing each other at our 55th.

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Pres: VADM John "Jake" G. Finneran, USN (Ret.) Sec'y: Chester "Chet" H. Shaddeau Jr. 343 Prestonfield Lane Sevema Park, MD 21146-1512 h: 410-647-5868; f: 410-647-2453 e: stadir@erols.com Shanghai Revisited Our Far East Resident Representative (he lives in Osaka, Japan), Bud Baldwin, recently emailed a great report on his December visit to Shanghai. So many of us have memories of that fascinating city in the '46-'49 era that 1 thought it would be fun for many of you to hear a recent viewpoint: Shanghai revisited, after my last visit in 1984: Just as New York is nor Arkansas, be assured that Shanghai is not China! Shanghai is freeways, on/off ramps, traffic jams, cell phones, ubiquitous families of three (the law since 1979) and malls, including sharp American-style fast-but-real-Chinese food stalls.

The old musty "Friendship" store, once available only to foreigners with access to hard currency, is now a classy six-story department store including products seen in New York's Fifth Avenue stores, and open to all. Fashionable Prada bags attract the Shanghai Yuppies, and no more of that special paper money that foreigners were required to use in the old days—today it's eight RMBs to the dollar.

There are two thousand protected 1920sera European building treasures, some with restored art-deco interiors; and a stunning new glass and white marble grand-theater/ concert-hall complex, both designed by French architects. These architects also have widened and redone the famous walking street—Nanking Road. They used red (what else?) marble to create a Times Square-like setting with bright lights, a huge TV screen, new department stores, and a shiny new hotel ($150 single) Across the Huang Pu River, which divides the old downtown west side and the new East Shanghai (called Pudong), is a forest of new skyscrapers and spheres.

From there it is just 36 miles to one of the world's newest and biggest airports— Pudong, done in glass, steel, and acres of polished marble floors. Among its major hotel counters are the Ritz Carlton, Hilton, Holiday Inn, and the world's tallest hotel, the Shanghai Hyatt skyscraper It's a meteredrideto the city, approximately $20 fare plus an appreciated tip for sane driving in a new Volkswagen taxi, along a divided highway of greenery andflowers,industrial parks, new suburban housing, and a country club. All signs in Shanghai are in Chinese characters and English.

Chinese lighting designers have made the '20s European buildings on the Financial Street (The Bund) along the river into a gorgeous night scene. A Japanese specialist (the same one who did the Tokyo Tower in orange and yellow) had the Herculean task of lighting the 21st-century space-age new Shanghai along the other side of the river Both sides can be viewed from the wide new red promenade on the Bund side, which includes a several-meter high statue of Mao. Never mind. Nobody pays any attention to it.

A Chinese diamond merchant told me that in five years Shanghai will be even more sensational than today, and will include the restoration of all those old '20s buildings I mentioned earlier, including the Peace Hotel, now undergoing a lengthy restoration. He also made arrangements for me to stay in the center of Shanghai in a gated estate of 27 villas and gardens, built in 1929 by a British trading company. In 1949, it became the property of The Party.

Visiting Party members from the hinterland stay there when in town, as did Mao from Beijing in his day. When not fully-booked, non-Party Chinese and foreigners can stay.

As an aside: I wondered where all those blue uniforms that a billion-plus Chinese wore everyday in Mao's time went. I didn't ask. Anyway, I never saw one. As for "The Little Red Book" of Mao's sayings, one or two tattered ones show up in antique stores in countryside Chinese tourist spots.

From a tourist point of view, Singapore is a bore; Hong Kong is—well, Hong Kong; but Shanghai is a city with character and possibly a brilliant future.

Final Honors It is with deep sadness that we announce the death of Classmate Frank Allen Thurtell on 5 Febraary 2000. St. Andrew's Chapel at the Academy was packed with Classmates, former shipmates and friends to render final honors to a submariner's submariner.

And I grieve to report the loss of my other Plebe Year wife, Robert Warren Strickler.

Bob had been in the Fleet, then tumed back out of '46, and did his level best to keep me and Al Maxfield out of trouble by teaching us the ropes, but had relatively little success with me, at any rate.

Obituaries for our departed Classmates appear in Last Call.

The Mail Buoy From Bob Peniston in Lexington, VA: In November, I finished a major task of summarizing all of General (Robert E.) Lee's letters in the possession of Washington and Lee University. I then transcribed all that had not been done. In sum, there were about 625 summaries and 290 transcriptions. It is perhaps the most rewarding thing I have done since retiring. With Fran needing help (after surgery last August), I have had to cut back on tutoring at the Middle School nearby, but do manage two visits a week to help three youngsters...

Al Maxfield emailed the sad news that his wife, Marge, has had to be moved to an assisted living home for Alzheimer's patients: There are only 12 residents, so it's like a big family. Even with an aide, it became too much to handle. She seems content, and I am not yet over the trauma, but will be

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better in a few days. I have a lot of catching up to do, and will be able to resume some important activities such as attending church once again. Thanks for the many kind messages and visits in person.

From West Lafayette, IN, Ed Hemmer checks in: You can tell from the email address that PhyUis is the correspondent here. However we were both surprised to know that Fran and Mai Jester travel to Maine occasionally, as we do. Will get in touch.

Phyllis and I had a very fine 50th wedding anniversary celebration here in Indiana in December Fortunately, I'm still able to make myself useful, being in charge of the total restoration of a large 1921 movie palace in Lafayette. It's on the National Register of Historic Places, money is not a problem, and the entire project should be completed in the fall of 2001...

And my old 13th and then 15th Companymate, Jim Forbes (Sec'y: he's the portholed face to the left on page 329 of your 40th yearbook, but the other guy shown on that page is much better looking!) sends us words of wisdom from California's Palos Verdes Estates: Bea and I retumed home from our CRYSTAL SYMPHONY Christmas Cruise from Sydney to Auckland to discover that all those Lucky Strikes hadfinallycaught up with me.

Although I quit smoking 18 years ago, I was diagnosed with limg cancer and had surgery on 3 Febmary. The surgeon said he got it all, and the doctors have given me a clean bill of health. It was quite traumatic, but I found it helpful to remind myself frequentiy that I was a member of USNA's Class of '47, and was therefore, by definition, brave!

The December Shipmate printed excerpts from a daily diary Jimmy Carter kept during Plebe Year. I ordered a copy of the full diary. It makes fascinating reading, especially for those of us who were in the 13th Company. I recommend it. (Sec'y: To which your scribe can only add that it's downright eerie, seeing somebody else's words from 50-plus years ago, when you yourself were present and participating in much of what he describes!)

Fred Jewett (or Fritz Jewett, if you prefer) writes from Toms River, NJ: Barbara and I celebrated our real 50th wedding anniversary in June with a quiet dinner at Bamegat Bay, but in August came the grand 50th Jewett pow wow at Nag's Head, NC. All three kids with all four grandchildren; two of my brothers, plus New Jersey next-door neighbors, who drove 400 miles to join us; plus one of Barbara's bridesmaids, plus Carky Guillot, a Classmate who drove all the way up with his wife, Maureen, from New Orleans.

Carky and his mother had both been lifesavers at our first homeporting in New Orleans—they found us an apartment, helped us sightsee, took us to Mardi Gras. If it hadn't been for him, we might not even have made the first anniversary, much less the 50th!

In September, we went back to Nag's Head for a mini-vacation, but my old friend Murphy (of Murphy's Law fame) decided that this was a good time for Hurricane Floyd. We bailed out just ahead of the mandatory evacuation order, and just in time to get through Tidewater before it shut down.

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Then in December, with four good tickets to the Army game in hand, my old friend Murphy stepped in again. I was scheduled for a routine physical on the day before the game, and when they took my pulse it was 150. Let's face it, who wants to go to the triumphant 100th Army-Navy game when you can go to Community Medical Center ER instead? I was on ice for a week. The problem was a breathing medicine I've used for years, and the ticker was finally settled down and okay.

Then on the first day of Y2K, in spite of having taken "the shot," I came down with the flu, which triggered a wild heartbeat flutter, and back I went to the hospital. Here, Murphy got into the act again, and I wound up in the same room and bed from 13 to 17 January where I had spent 3-10 December!

I'm on the mend now, though no cartwheels yet. The ticker is doing just fine once again, so a great new year to all of you, but watch out: Murphy's loose!

... A 50th wedding anniversary party at Nag's Head for Fred and Barbara Jewett Proud Papa Picture F r a n k Readdy writes in: Here are some photo prints to add to your license plate file. Please note the Blue and Gold jackets! The photo was taken, incidentally, on the day my son (CAPT William F. Readdy '74) was leaving for a visit to the South Pole, and you may read about his visit in a future Class of '74 column.

A sidelight for those who do not live in the area; the Commonwealth of Virginia offers "vanity" plates with the crest of your college or university as well as a personal statement.

Their USNA crest looks great.

L to r: Stan Turner poses with U.S. District Judge Richard Mills, a major general (ret.) in the Illinois State Militia, who made the ritual presentation to the Govemor of Illinois, on the occasion of Stan's becoming a Laureate of the Lincoln Academy of Illinois While we are on the subject of Kudos, we are advised by Bob M a r m e t that next June, the Education Foundation of the National Association of Broadcasters will honor Rosalynn and Jimmy Carter with their Service to America Leadership Award "in recognition of their generous contributions to society." Along these lines, see the letter in the Mail Buoy section from J i m Forbes.

Received a very welcome note from Bill Russell, appropriately surmounted by a beautiful golden reproduction—almost life-size— of Navy Wings. Impressive!

New signups on CYBERSEVERN47 include Bus Cobean, Wes McDonald, Ed Hemmer, Leo Hofman's widow, Gloria, and Chuck Doscher's widow. Dawn. Come on in, the emailing is fine!

Presumably delivered by penguins, Mase Wells' postcard from the southernmost town in the world, Ushuaia in Argentina, near Cape Hom, took from 11 January to 12 Febraary to reach me—and by that time they were back in the States, babysitting in Vidalia, GA, and I suppose awaiting the results of the election of Alumni Trastees. That result, of course, should be known by the time you read this, but as of this writing, it is still way in the future. Confusing, isn't it? Enough for now.

The arriving mail is still a pretty thin trickle.

Get into the act, and WRITE! '47BOTS. Chet

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Sec'y: CDR Sumner K. Moore, USN (Ret.) 308 Mansion Drive, Alexandria, VA 22302 h: 703-549-8739; e; sk48moore@aol.com L to r : Frank's vanity plate, Frank Readdy, Astronaut son. Bill Readdy '74, and his vanity plate Quick Takes As of this writing, Stan Turner, recovering from the injuries sustained in the Costa Rica plane crash which cost the life of his wife, Karin, is still in Walter Reed Army Hospital at Washington, D . C , but improving daily and expected to leave the Hospital in a day or two.. .The nearby photo was received almost the same day as the crash, but the event occurred last year...

As this is written, the first of March, I recall that last month I complained of cold weather not recently experienced in these parts. In fact, as of 10 Febraary, when Jane and I headed south on our customary slide this time of year, we left a lot of snow and ice surrounding the house. Cruising down 1-95 in our ' 86 Ford LTD wagon, now a curiosity, sporting 234,000 miles, we experienced smooth sailing among the 18-wheelers and heavily loaded RVs, all generally exceeding the often 70 mph speed limit. I don't push mine past 65, or 70 when conditions are optimum. However, her age showed a bit on our

short leg in a monsoon from Kiawah Island, SC, to The Cloister, Sea Island, GA. The rain finally got to the ignition and we arrived sputtering. Thanks to WD-40, all was restored quickly.

From the Cloister, we slipped into Florida and paid a visit to Wyn and Dick Adams on Amelia Island, just north of Jax. After being ejected from their hilltop villa on St. Thomas, VI, by Hurricane Hugo several years ago, they built a great marsh-side house looking west across the Inland Waterway on Amelia, below Femandina Beach. A traly tranquil spot attended by marsh birds, and the quiet broken only by the occasional chugging of a tug and barge maneuvering the curves and sandbars of the waterway. While there, we got in touch with Sally and Jack Ryder, who built on one of the gorgeous golf courses there a couple of years ago, migrating from Annapolis. The Ryders retain their house up on Lake George in New York, and spend seven months up there each year. The six of us spliced the mainbrace chez Ryder, and 1 must observe at this point that as seasoned citizens, we all seemed nughty young and springy.

From PO Box 211, Mountain City, TN 37683,1 received a fine letter and photo from Vic Sharpe, which includes a pep talk on the world of Recreational Vehicle (RV) folks.

Here's Vic: There is a new USNA Alumni Association group which I have joined and which may be of interest to other members of the Class. This group, the RV Chapter, submits a column to Shipmate which appears towards the back among the Chapters, between Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. I am sure that there are Classmates who would be interested in joining if they knew about it, but most only read your article and the obits. I enclose some information about the group along with a photo of myself and Faye taken at our latest "come around" at Eufala, AL, in November

Vic and Faye Sharpe with the RV Chapter So, here is Vic's spiel: For the past eight years, Faye and I have been "full-timers" living in our 36-foot Foretravel motorhome. In addition to traveling all over the U.S., we have attended rallies sponsored by various motorhome groups. A year or so ago, several USNA Alumni decided to start a chapter called "Recreational Vehicle American Chapter."

I joined as soon as I heard about it. We, along with 25 other USNA RV owners, attended the Chapter's latest "Come Around" which was held last November at a Corps of Engineers campground at Eufala. As you can see from our smiling faces in the photo.

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a great time was had by all. The Chapter is planning get-togethers in all parts of the U.S. during the year. At this time, I am the only '48er who belongs to the Chapter. I am sure there are other RV owners in the Class who would enjoy belonging if they only knew about it. Please read the RV Chapter news in the back of Shipmate.

It's now fiscal time, so you need to hear this from our Endowment Committee: The class of 1948 is continuing its drive to reach the endowment goal of $2 million.

A source of income to the Fund can be donations that every one of us makes throughout the year in memory of passing friends or Classmates, or in honor of special occasions such as significant birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, etc. The Endowment Committee asks you to consider making such contributions in this manner, and, further, asks that families of Classmates consider requesting that in lieu of flowers or contributions to other recipients, the contributions be made to the Class of 1948 Fund at the time of their demise. The Alumni Association will acknowledge receipt of the donation and send an acknowledgment to the honoree or the decedent's family in the donor's name.

Jack Le Doux reports from Blacksburg, VA: Haven't written in a longtimebut thought my recent experience may be of help or interest to '48ers. About six months ago, I was diagnosed with prostate cancer. I suspected as much even though I had no symptoms. So, it was not tike some bolt out of the blue. Since it was not particularly aggressive, we had time to decide what to do.

After much thought, reading, and discussion with many people and a few doctors, I elected to go for the radioactive seed implant procedure. It was funny, but I knew more about the radiation than most of the doctors with my nuclear experience of many years. I also received a Lupron shot a few months in advance that reduced the size of the prostate and reduced the growth of the cancer. For those interested, Lupron gives you "hot flashes" and essentially kills whatever sex drive you may still have. I can now sympathize with the gals and their hot flashes. All in all, it was really no big deal. Had the operation on 3 February, which took all of 40 minutes, and I was fully awake one hour later. Went home without a catheter which was a big mistake, and had to have another one put in that evening about 7 p.m. From then to midnight, about three or four liters of fluid made their exit into this little bag on my leg. The catheter was really no trouble at all and I had it removed on the 6th. I am now fully back to battery and feel great. So for any of you guys that have this problem, (about 50 percent should), I recommend this process over surgery. Will let you know in about six-months about how it is going, but 1 do not think it will affect my golf game.

On another subject, last year I wrote my biography at the urging of some of my kids who were tired of my verbal sea stories.

So, I wrote it over six to eight months on and off. It really made a hit with the kids and grandkids. My oldest grandson, who is now about 25, upon reading it, said, "Wow, I did not know that Grandpa did all that.

Cool." I will send you a copy for the '48 archives, and really recommend you '48ers

do the same. Your family will appreciate it.

Finally, for computer nuts, I wrote a football game about 15 years ago that won second place in a national computer programming contest. I have kept it up and improved it greatiy. You can play the current NFL teams or any of the past 66 super bowl teams. Will bring it up to the 2000 year teams and schedule about April or May. It has successfully predicted the past 12 winners, since it is statistically based. Anyone interested, write to me and send $4 for the disk and postage. It takes about one meg of memory. (John C. Le Doux, 1905 Ramble road, Blacksburg, VA 24060).

Bill Chipman, our Virginia Beach connector, sent a sad note informing us of the death of Deming Smith on 1 Febraary, from a heart attack while in the Virginia Beach General Hospital for other reasons. It was most unexpected, since he had experienced no prior symptoms.

I also received a note from his widow, Carol, just as this was being written. She adds: Deming passed away very suddenly of cardiac arythmia. He had been hospitalized for acute osteoarthritis and was awaiting results of an MRI and other tests when he died in his sleep. His ashes will be going to sea for his burial at sea. Sorry the Class has lost one more fine member. The Chaplain, Capt. Richard Fenton Wicker Jr., who did Deming's memorial service, has been a Class friend for more than 30 years, and knowing Deming so well made it a very special service.

Deming was a survivor of Plebe Year, 10th Company, making a successful transition as a Second Classman into the 19th for the next two years. His naval career began at NAPS following a short go at MIT and a try at Navy flight training, which was thwarted by vision problems. Upon graduation, he became a stalwart surface sailor, eventually commanding MILLS ( D E R - 3 8 3 ) and JOHN KING ( D D G - 2 ) , was XO of SPRINGRELD ( C G - 7 ) , and moved

through various tours in the ASW business.

In '55, he PG'd in chemistry at Lehigh. He ended his career as Deputy Inspector General Atlantic Fleet. He and Carol were married in July 1950, and had four children and six grandchildren. After he retired in 1975, they settled in Virginia Beach and Deming took on the Norfolk Suburban Lions Club as his special community contribution, becoming its president. For fun, he kept sailing and developed his amazing talents in the woodworking field. His cabinet making became legendary while he created mountains of sawdust.

Deming was a real gentleman and a fine naval officer. Our Norfolk area group especially will miss him. Carol can be reached at 4345 Two Woods Road, Virginia Beach, VA 23455.

Well, the email brought in a request from Jim Treece for some information I could provide, and I asked him if he would provide some dope on himself He is one of the few '48 non-grads who has stayed in touch and belongs to the Alumni Association. Here is his reply, which I find most interesting.

The Treeces split in '83. I retired here (12651 N. Pebble Beach Drive, Sun City, AZ 85351) in '91. My main interest is working as a volunteer justice of the peace.

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The JP is archaic, but is upgraded with good facilities provided by the State and with oversight by a board. The courts are scattered throughout the metro area of Phoenix (Maricopa County is one of the most populous in the country). Primarily, I hear small claims cases, where lawyers are not permitted, judgments are final and limited to $2,500. As JP pro tempore, I can handle anything the elected justice can. That includes arraignments and preliminary hearings in felony cases. Also, I can conduct marriages. Since the justices enhance their pay this way, I don't get that chance. I am not judgmental or accusatory in my dealings with the public. I strive to give a good decision, and. one which will be respected.

I try to give full opportunity to be heard.

Occasionally, a litigant will be very upset that he/she lost, but all one can do is give reasons why and hope you guessed right as to which one was telling the truth. I am still listed in Who's Who in America and the World, but figure that they will realize before long that I was long ago over the hill.

One of my daughters had appointments to all three academies. She visited Annapolis and was told to take the public tour. She noted males in like circumstances were escorted and guided. She chose Air Force. She is Class of '83 and presentiy is a light colonel and stationed in Ramstein, Germany.

My other major effort is for neglected and abused kids. I serve on a review board and, for such boards, lobby the legislature on behalf of those kids. It isn't exciting or impressive. The reward is hoping that because of an idea you had, some kid may salvage a life that got off to a lousy start.

Sorry to have so little to report. I think it is amazing to still be able to report.

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Pres: John F. Barrow Sec'y: RADM Ralph Ghormley, USN (Ret.) PO. Box 10262, McLean, VA 22102-8262 p: 703-351-0964; fax: 703-351-5864; email: rmghormley@aol.com Secy: CAPT Pete Swanson USN (Ret) (Departing) RO. Box 10262, McLean, VA 22102-8262 This is my first column, and I want to lead off by saying "thanks" to Pete Swanson for the wonderful job he has done off and on over the past 20 years as Class Secretary. Some of you have been pestered by email messages while I tried to get a workable e-data base on my computer and on AOL. Lesson learned: if you £u:e on AOL yourself, my AOL system only shows your URL, and does not put your name in the address line; your name is still in the address list. There will doubtless be more inexplicable surprises, but we'll resolve them with time and your patience with the new kid on the block.

Reports—Washington The Washington group met at the ArmyNavy Country Club on 8 Febraary. Attendees included Reynolds Beckwith, Jack Benoit, Bill Bryan, Bob Coontz, Ralph Ghormley, Bill Guthrie, C.M.C. Jones Jr., Pete Klein, Graham Leonard, Jim McVoy, Ed Messsere, Bill Myers, Gene Reiher, Paul Riegert, and Pete Swanson. Around the table: Gene Reiher is looking for senior Softball players for the Northem Virginia Senior Softball League. Two of our Marine football players entertained(?) the group by seeing which one could most accurately recall the names of the Navy varsity players in the autumn of 1945, while the rest listened in awe to such powerful demonstrations of memory.

Annapolis The Annapolis group met at Deep Creek Restaurant on 17 February. Attendees included Chet Davis, Keatinge Keays, Steve Krause, Mickey McDonald, Cal Roberts, Gene Shine, Jack Venable, and Ely Venning.

Keatinge Keays took the following pictures.

The O'Keefes (standing), with Betty Carruth (left) and Grace Harkins (right) at the Christmas dinner-dance

Chet Davis and Mickey McDonald

lack Venable, Ely Venning, Keatinge Keays, Gene Shine, Chet Davis, and Cal Roberts Hampton Roads Tom Parsons reports that the Hampton Roads group started the New Year appropriately by setting a new attendance record at the January meeting. All the regulars tumed out except for Arch Roos, who was doing South America. Jack Tinkham and Strib Snodgrass joined the bunch, Strib for the first time. The group hopes their schedules permit their joining the regulars. Don Trueblood provided this photo (following page) of the occasion.

More Tales From Hampton Roads The real reason for Navy's victory over Army in 1999 was that Arch Roos, who sponsors a "pooley" award (presented annually to a member of Navy's Junior Varsity football team), chose Brian Madden '02 as last year's winner. He was so inspired by Roos' award that he advanced to further football greatness.

The word is out—all coaches and players watch carefully for the announcement of this year's winner.

The Hampton Roads group has celebrated three golden wedding anniversaries to date: Margaret and Don Dahlman, Wanda and Marvin Frazee, and Boo and Malcolm Thiele. There ought to be a medal for such heroines.

Jerry Jones' new retirement career of watching his prized holly trees grow is producing results. He showed a snapshot of a tree—as a shrab—at a recent meeting. Red Tolbert, who is an assistant watcher, noted that it wasn't a very good picture.

Rowena Fullenwider failed in her bid to win a seat in the Virginia House of Delegates, but in so doing won many admirers. The pound cake she makes in her gourmet specialty shop also has many admirers. Pete Fullenwider was in charge of knocking on doors.

Barkley Wood and Tom Parsons have a ranning bet on the Dallas Cowboys-Washington Redskins football games. Check the photo (following page) to see how enthusiastically Barkley pays his gaming debts. Incidentally, Barkley is recovering well from spinal surgery and chafing at the forced idleness.

Jack Venable and Steve Krause Shipmate, May 2000

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Barkley Wood and Tom Parsons Tom Parsons also reports that Tex Lawrence, Liz Rosenthal, Alyce and Tom joined Charlie and Bob McElroy at their Kiowah Island home, only to be strack down

by South Carolina's version of the Asian flu.

With only Bob and Liz able to move, Charlie still played the elegant hostess with cough syrap, cold pills, and headache powders.

Bob McElroy, Tom Parsons and Tex Lawrence Jack Huenerberg reports that after the final Reunion dinner, he, Fran, George and Ginny Kling, Evangeline and Beau Glass, and Bobbi and John Miller compressed themselves into the Miller's car and sped off to the Radisson, being careful to avoid "Annapolis' finest." Jack said they now know each other even better than before the ride.

He likened the affair to the coach train trip to Texas Plebe Christmas.

Here and There Jim Wilson reports from Pinehurst: Hi Guys and Gals. Might as well talk to all of you—mainly because I sent a joke to John Mallard and he responded by asking

for Rhodes' email address. I haven't written you all for a long time, or maybe never, but it is time we got together more. We are supposed to be retired and loafing around, but I don't feel that way at all. I'm sure we all stay busier than ever My latest job has been raising $150,000 to improve a stage for the North Carolina Symphony. That is really something new for a Navy type, but we are almost there. I have been very active in the North Carolina Symphony as the president the last two years.

First, John from Asheville, NC—I got your address from your wife who was kind enough to send us a Christmas card. Must be wild out there in western North Carolina with all the snow. We had 16 inches here in Southem Pines, and now I have two holes in my roof and have lost five dogwood trees and a bunch of other things. Will take time to get back to normal. We were without power for six days. Cooking over a kerosene stove is a nice Boy Scout thing, but not very nice for us.

Mickey and Pete—you do great jobs keeping the class together. Pete, I really appreciated your Shipmate obituary on Dick Francis. Stan Counts and I lost two wonderful Company shipmates in one week—Dick and Ed Miller. Ed, Stan, and I roomed together for three years. This getting old gets tougher and tougher Ed and Hanna Miller, who live in Mississippi, had visited us this summer and we spent much of our time with them during the 50th.

We were sorry you couldn't make it to the 50th, Stan and Betty. Try again on the 55th.

Dick and Nancy—Hope to see you soon up there in the Washington area. Our son, John, and his family complete their five year Embassy tour in Saudi Arabia in midJuly. They will be back in their house in Arlington and we'll get together soon. We'll be in Annapolis for the USNA graduation in May. I have two Midshipmen in the Class of 2000 that I recruited through the Blue & Gold program. I'm almost embarrassed to say that they are young ladies, but they are terrific. Many changes in this world. Enjoyed talking to you all. Keep Charging!

Mac Adams reports: We are doing fine—much better than we deserve. Just got back from a wonderful ski trip to Whistler—first time in the bindings in nearly ten years. I figured it was suicide, but by limiting myself to the green mns and

spending an hour in the sauna, I don't even hurt. The area is unbelievable with 33 lifts and over 600 runs and the price is right with the three for two Canadian dollar And, we lucked out on the Wx. I'm keeping busy teaching computers at the local SeniorNet, running a duplicate bridge club, and driving shut-ins to shop and bank in the community sixteen-passenger bus. My baby, 280-pound son just took off for Sydney, Australia, for a year and with a daughter in Tokyo we anticipate too much traveling, as usual.

Sure enjoyed the Reunion. The core of city Annapolis hasn't changed that much and the Marriott was excellent. High points for us was, of course so many old friends that we hadn't seen in too long, the lst/13th Company lunch, and the party at Arch Roos'. The drive, 8,500 statute miles, will have to be repeated again and again.

Current Necrology Recently received word that our ranks have thinned again—four more Classmates have died. Don Pantle died on 7 January 2000 in Houston, TX. His wife. Belle, remains at P.O. Box 1022, City by the Sea, Aransas Pass, TX 78335-1022. Phil Riley died on 1 Febraary 2000 in Des Moines, lA. His wife's address is 605 Harwood Lane, Des Moines, lA 501322314. Drew Chevalier died on 12 Febraary 2000 in Fresno, CA. His wife had predeceased him. Robert Bulmer died on 27 Febraary 2000. The address for his wife, Mary Louise, is 2060 Grantham Road, Berwyn, PA 19312.

Address Updates Bill Black's spouse, Jane; zip code 220271045. Jim Ferrero's email: jferrero49@ aol.com. James Scott: tel/fax area code 361, e: scottconsultants@coupuserve.com. James B. Way Jr.'s email: jbwayjr@brinet.com.

A collection of fitness report extracts, obviously compiled from a number of sources (military/civilian/US/European) has been sitting on my desk for a long time, and should provide a light touch to close. Remember anyone who fit this marginally flattering description: "Works well when under constant supervision and comered like a rat in a trap."

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Pres: RADM Roy Snyder, USN (Ret.) Sec'y: CAPT Wayne L. Jensen, USN (Ret.) 499 Skyhill Court, Chula Vista, CA 91910

Hampton Roads gather. L to r. front row: Strib Snodgrass, Red Tolbert, Harry Train, Marv Frazee, Tom Parsons, John Tinkham, Jack Magee, Don Trueblood; rear row: Arch King, Bill Dotson, Jack Huenerberg, Don Dahlman, Male Thiele, Bob Kelser (VMI '50), Carlos McCullough 74

J.B. Farrell calls to remind that George Darfus was Ross Perot '53's First Classman and should he become the candidate of the Reform Party, then George bears all the responsibility for his actions. Also on a slightly political note, we have the definitive word from the Class of 1950 in Southem California. At the 13 February Valentines' dinner party for our sweethearts at the San Diego Yacht Club we conducted a caucus as to who would be our next president of the United States. The results came out to Al Gore, 6; John McCain '58, 7; George W. Bush, 13.

This information is probably just as good as Shipmate, May 2000

many of the so-called pundits and polls offer Those attending that 13 February banquet were: Gloria and Lee Bendell, Marjorie and Frank Cassilly, Marcia and Charlie Clark, Carol and Birch DeWitt, Faye and Don Elliott, Geri and Dean French, Judy and Mark F r u d d e n , Dolores and Lloyd Harrison, Dorothy and Wayne Jensen, Minnie and B.B. Lane, Theresa and John Malloy, Dottie and Dick Martin, Betty and Bob Muck, Mary Ellen Prescott, Diana and Frank Taylor and Helen and Gene Wisenbaker.

Harvey Hogue calls from Fredericksburg, TX, to inform of the fact that Clifford Crafts passed away on 22 January 2000, in New Smyma Beach, FL. An obituary for Shipmate is being provided by Eileen. Cliff will be sorely missed by all and in particular by those who were introduced to his Greenport, Long Island, accent during Plebe Summer.

J.J. McNally drops a line from Nagoya, Japan, and another from Hong Kong (the one from Hong Kong arrived 18 days quicker) to annoimce that he was taking a jaunt around WestPac to say sayonara. He was with his son, John, who is chief mate in Sea Land ENDUR.A^NCE, which takes containers around the rim of the Pacific. It is a highly efficient operation with the ship getting in and out of a port in about eight hours.

John and J.J. McNally on board Sea Land ENDURANCE The ship is run with four deck officers, four engineers, and enough men to handle lines.

J.J. says if one of them got sick he supposes they'd put him to work. He occupies the former radio operator's cabin, which is spacious and a far cry from CVS J.O. bunkrooms.

Radio operators are a thing of the past on these ships so they give extra money to the other deck officers to handle radio chores.

They had just pulled into Hong Kong and the town has exploded in growth with apartments all over the hills and a congested harbor with container piers everywhere. John admits that the ship is a great feeder, but not much on liberty. They keep her at sea making money and contributing to the economic prosperity we are all enjoying.

The Annapolis '50 group had their luncheon on 11 February at the Radisson Hotel (formerly the Holiday Inn) in Parole where our 50th Reunion would be held starting 27 April 2000. Those in attendance: George Van, Wayne Smith, G e r r y C o l e m a n , John Henderson, Daryle Tripp, Don Fraasa, Byron Lee, Ed Grunwald, Tom Rogers and John Cavanaugh.

The Washington, D.C, area group had their Class Sweetheart lunch at the A-N Country Shipmate, May 2000

Club on 10 February. The attendance was great with: Suzanne and Willy Ay res, Henen and Ray Bowers, Molly and Jerry Coleman, Carol and Charlie Cooper, Janet and Wilfred Curley, Jackie and Bill Diehl, Sally Hardy, Pat and Larry Hawkins, Jo and Charlie Hirsch, Millie and John Holmes, Carol and Bill Kiehl, Terry and Law Kivlen, Nancy and Ward Lasley, Donna and Byron Lee, Anne and Bob Mandeville, Char and Bob Monroe, J.J. McNally and daughter, Alyssa, Joan and John Nolan, Mary and Bob Oliver, Fran and Dick Powell, Ellen and Tom Rogers, Bets Ryan, Liz and Jack Ryan, Mary and Bob Satre, Margy and Bob Shultz, Joyce and Bill Simons, Jane and Bill Smoot, Jane and Bill Taylor with daughter, Mary and friend Nat Sowers, Dorothy and Marsh Treado, and Betty and Norb Walecka.

Continuing on with the typical fictional Christmas letter which was started in last month's issue: Larry, of course, is tmbudgeablefi'omthe Park Avenue townhouse, but Pat spent most weekends in Luceme. Larry retired this year (bought himself out) and received a goldplated 1963 Cadillac Sedan de Ville from Pat and a lovely paperweight from the regional sales managers. Touching, really. He sailed our 76-foot yawl PATRICIANA to the villa in St. Kitt for some much needed "R and R" with his fishing buddy, Senator Watts from Oklahoma, pausing only to win the prestigious Montgomery Challenge Cup at the Cinqueports Regatta and to send brother Bob a "get well soon" card at the machine shop in Arcadiae.

It is with tongue in cheek that the foregoing is offered to help Classmates spice up their Christmas letters, which by the way, are enjoyed and much appreciated.

The San Diego '50 group gathered for their Febraary meeting at the Naval Station Mariner Club on the 4th. Trae to the tradition of the Dark Ages, the attendance was sparse.

Those attending: Mark Fradden, Bob Muck, B.B. Lane, Don Elliott, Wayne Jensen, Dick Thurston, Gene Wisenbaker, Dick Smith and J.B. Farrell.

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Pres: Lee Doggett 1201 Black Walnut Lane, Annapolis, MD 21403 h: 410-263-5613; f: 410-263-3317 e: leedoggett@aol.com Vice Pres: John P. Sullivan 866 N. Kensington Drive, Ariington, VA 22205 Rec. Sec'y: Jack Grace 3812 N. 24th St., Ariington, VA 22207 e: jackgrace(gearthlink.net Corr Sec'y: CAPT H.T. "Beau" Dietrich 9508 Woody Lane, Great Falls, VA 22066 h: 703-759-5006; e: beau9pnt5@aol.com Class Fundraiser: Guy Shaffer 344 Martins Cove Road, Annapolis, MD 21401 h: 410-757-9086; f: 410-974-4553 e: ghbs51usna@aol.com Web site: www.usna.com/classes/class51/51a.htm "Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first, best country ever is at home. "â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Oliver Goldsmith President's Corner By the time you read this, the Class will have held the annual meeting and elected a new President. I trust you will support him as you have me and all my predecessors. It has been a distinct honor to serve as your President for the past three years. I have really enjoyed the increased communications with the Class. 1 have particularly enjoyed the support you have given the Class by way of your contributions to our "major project" for the Museum. I am, of course, disappointed that we have not been able to reach or motivate 130 of you. Please go back to your January-February 2000 Shipmate and read the "Superintendent's Call." I think that finally there is a cogent story that might move you to action, if you read it.

Thanks for all your support and help. Lee Class Web Page The Class Web page has become more active in recent months. Ross Williams, as Web master, has redesigned the page to make it most user friendly.

Items relating to Class Projects, the continuing activities related to the '51 Gallery of Ships, and the 50th Reunion information appears regularly.

More important, fast breaking news related to the Naval Academy or the Class of 1951 now appear on the Web page within a day or so of happening.

If you haven't sampled the Web page, give it a try.

If you haven't joined the Internet crowd, do so, even if you have to use your son-in-law's computer Around the Class, Around the World "Fang" Liberate forwarded the picture taken at Alan Maclnnis' Christmas party. From the looks of the participants, someone must have passed the word that Santa was on his way.

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Christmas at the Maclnnis'. Frank Liberato, John Butts, Lou Sarosdy andAl Maclnnis In Hawaii for the Navy-University of Hawaii football game, the Latimers and Gambkes visited the Arizona Memorial as members of a group hosted by RADM Al Konetzni '66, ComSubPac.

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Sam and Gay Lattimer, Al Konetzni '66, Eileen and Fred Gambke, and Ian Cassidy '86, park ranger Jack Cromwell reports that he is successfully recovering from an operation for a detached retina.

The photo was taken in front of the Cromwell home.

Gordon Van Hook and Jack Cromwell Class Cruise 2000 John McGrew sends the following information: Over the past decade, I have organized a number of group cruises. Several '51ers will be joining us on a week long 2-9 December Eastern Caribbean Cruise from Ft. Lauderdale on Celebrity Cruise Lines' CENTLIRY. There will be special rates for 'Slers and the cruise including port tax starts at under $700 per person. Ports of call include San Juan, St. Thomas, St. Maarten, and Nassau in the Bahamas. It almost sounds like a religious experience. This might be a chance for some to recoimect about a year before our 50th Reunion in Annapolis. Anyone interested, call me at 619-297-1496.

Memory Lane From our dark past comes a photo submitted by Pat Gwynne, widow of our Stan Rattazzi, of Sam Latimer and Bill Whitner all dolled-up for the Winter Doldrum Follies. Ah! Such Memories!

Sam Latimer and Bill Whitner Last Call It is with deep regret that I must report the passing of our friend and Classmate Lt Col Victor Cokayne Benjovsky, USAF (Ret.), on 17 Febmary. He had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1954, and for these many years managed to keep his faith, dignity and wonderful sense of humor intact in the face of ever increasing suffering.

He and Babs were shining examples to all of us.

Godspeed, Ben. Our deepest sympathies go out to Babs and the family.

End Note Please keep those cards, letters, and photos coming. Thanks, Al Raithel

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Pres: CAPT Vincent J. Manara, USN (Ret.) Sec'y: CAPT Leigh Ebbert, USN (Ret.) 2514 Culpeper Road, Alexandria, VA 22308-2133 e: J-L.Ebbert@worldnet.att.com Looking toward the summer months brings thoughts of visits with grandchildren, family reunions, and travel opportunities. These thoughts coupled with commitments to the community,

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Class, and professional organizations challenge me to continue to be very deliberate about taking time for myself A quiet read somewhere, organizing the "stuff" I have collected, and enjoying an occasional woodworking project plus golf. I am grateful for choices.

The aimual meeting will have just taken place when you get this. Results of the elections, and treasurer's report will be in the next column. Thank you, Vince, for your dedication and work as Class President. You have served us well.

The Southwest Chapter has had their Third Annual Picacho Peak cookout. Bob Michaels, reminds us of the many things to see and do in Arizona, from Grand Canyon in the northwest to Kartchner Caverns in the southeast. Picacho Peak in the Valley of the Sun was the site of the westernmost battle of the Civil War Thanks, Bob, for the information and we look forward to hearing the details. Red Stein at our Annapolis Sweetheart Brunch circulated a flyer describing a possible Class tour of the area in and around the Four Comers. Sounded very interesting.

The Sweetheart Brunch was a very nice gathering of Classmates, and members of the 17th Company and the Class of '02 at the Officers' and Faculty Club at the Naval Academy. We very much enjoyed the company of the Midshipmen. Charles McDonald presented the 17th Company representatives with a framed copy of that infamous page 1: The Capital, dated 6 June 1952. The feature article describing our "shoe affair" will hang in the Company wardroom. There was talk of a golf match on 1 May. A highlight was the presentation of red carnations to each lady by Midshipmen 3/C Colin Kennedy '02 and Jason Fahy '02. A tall and lanky Midshipman Fahy, distributed the flowers with a flair and a kiss. Quite a nice touch. Attending: Frances and Dave Ackerson, Nancy and Gene Avallone, Rita and Gamett Bailey, Helen and Les Banghart, Francoise and Al Bress, June and Jake Brown, Betty and Bob Caulk, Bobbie and Dick Denfeld, Jean and Leigh Ebbert, Lola and Paul German, Carmen and Larry Layman, Dolly and Ed Leonard, Esther and Vince Manara, Charlie McDonald, Frieda and Mel Meltzer, Muffie and Jim Nunneley, Jan and Jerry Rapkin, Elaine and Bob Schultz, Jean and Jack Sheehan, Lois and Dick Smith, Betty and Harry Spencer, Lonnie and Red Stein, Jane and Bill Studabaker, Tom Thawley and Susan Kephart, Adele and Buz Thomas, Jim Troutman, Penny Vahsen, Petey and Biscuit Wev, Jane and Jack Young, Rita and Jerry Zacharais. From the 17 Company: LT Samantha Saxton, Company Officer; Midshipmen l/C, Anthony Angelone '00, Christina Beaty '00, Omar Peralta '00; Midshipmen 2/C Will Bundy '01 and Gale Clarke '01; Midshipmen 3/C Jason Fahy, and Colin Kennedy. The President of the Class of ' 0 2 , Tim Kane '02 and Secretary Gregory Chapman '02. Dave Ackerson came down from Pennsylvania and it was nice to see him again after all these years. Thank you, Charlie, for making the artangements.

Catching up with news of the past year, Peter Stark reminds me: 1 thought you had all the information on the Alumni Golf Bash for '99. Both Dick Denfeld and 1 won prizes in the second flight and I ended up with the longest drive of the day (five yards farther than the guy out of '85!) for which I received a $25 certificate.

Thanks, Pete, for the rest of the story. Sorry I missed it the first time around.

The Alumni Association has forwarded an article from the 17 February edition of The Capital which discussed Severna Park and its efforts to raise money to decorate a tree. In the article our Alumni tree is referenced as a model, "I've always

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admired the Alumni House tree and I want Sevema Park to have the same thing," said Linda Zahn, executive director of the Greater Sevema Park Chamber. How about that!

Bob Compton shares a letter from Dick Sewell: 1 was not aware that my "fame" had reached the level of Shipmate (an article in the column), but I'm certainly grateful to your shipmate Jerry Rapkin for getting the article published.

I'm still playing the trumpet (down in Galesville in a restaurant called Top Side) and still enjoying it. I'll keep on as long as I canl Playing for your Class was always a lot of fun and both you (i.e.. Bob) and Biscuit (Wev) as attendees and as vocalists, made the evenings morÂŤ enjoyable.

Dick and his group provided music for our Homecoming gatherings at the Alumni House for quite a number of years.

Also from Bob, a letter from Richard T. Monopoli to Bob thanking him... .. .and all of my father's friends and roommates at the Academy whose combined efforts brought about the installation of his memorial plaque in the Navy football stadium.

Thanksgiving was the first opportunity for all of our family to see the plaque. It took some searching, but we eventually found it on the 50yard line! We were all moved to tears. 1 have never felt closer to my Dad, and in some ways, never missed him so much. To know that he had such good friends makes him very real to me.

Richard also shares that he proposed to his girlfriend on that Thanksgiving weekend, and she said yes! Thank you very much, Bob, for passing those letters along.

The Annapolis Group gathered in December for a lunch at the Officers' and Faculty Club. Attending were; Jim Fischer, Jerry Rapkin, P.D. Sierer, Gordon Jayne, C C . McDonald, Tom Thawley, Jim Sagerhom, Biscuit Wev, Gene Avalone, Buz Thomas and Jack Sheehan.

I'm including a number of pictures that capture some of last fall's activities: Vince sends along pictures taken at the Corolla Lighthouse in North Carolina, featuring Harry Spencer, Toxey Califf, Vince Manara, and Garnett Bailey; during the homecoming weekend; and the dinner following the Christmas Tree lighting where you see the Rapkins, Wevs, Nunneleys, Baileys and Manaras.

Petey Wev provided a picture of the gathering at Bethesda for the Christmas Ball.

From the Sunday Oklahoman, 13 February 2000, headline: "A soaring legacy; Weatherford museum honors native son Thomas Stafford."

If a MiG-21 seems out of place at the small Weatherford airport, it really isn't. Childhood

Dirmer after the Christmas tree lighting in Annapolis

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toys, a space suit and the Russian-built plane are all a part of Gen. Thomas P. Stafford's life.

The airport and museum are named after Stafford, and a statue of the astronaut stands in a prominent location in the business area of town...

A very nice write up for our distinguished Classmate!

Wayne Hughes is to be honored at a day long symposium, dinner, and roast at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey. The symposium topic is tactical analysis, an area strongly influenced by Wayne's practice, publications and teaching. Details on the Web at http://web.nps.navy.mil/ ~opnsrsch/hughes-symp/overview.htm.

Bravo Zulu to both Tom Stafford and Wayne Hughes, who advocates "See the Moment" (ask him).

Jack Young wTites that he was "impressed with Hank Gruppe's research on CHESAPEAKE and his gift of the deck beam piece to the museum. Seems I have spent most of the winter reading the books of Patrick O'Brian and his Captain, Jack Aubrey, R.N. The book just finished is The Fortune of War, which includes the runup to the battle between CHESAPEAKE and HMS SHANNON. It is great stuff

and I recommend it to all. Thanks, Jack, I am also an O'Brian fan.

Jack Richard, president of the Knoxville-Oak Ridge Chapter for 2000, sends along a report of the fourth year that the Chapter will host the Navy Lightweight crew when "they come to kick off their training at the great facilities on the Clinch River in Oak Ridge during their spring break. As in the past, we are housing them with Alumni and friends in Oak Ridge. There will be 61 midshipmen, one officer representative and three or four coaches.

Both the varsity and plebe lightweight crews are coming. From all reports the lightweights should have a great season this year." Thanks, Jack, for the good work.

Jack Sheehan had a very moving article titled, "Sometimes information is dangerous" in The Washington Times, dated 9 January 2000. Answering a December article talking about the Naval Academy, Jack provides a hard-hitting article highlighting the evolution of the Academy curriculum over the years, and invites people to visit and be better informed. Thanks, Jack.

All sorts of offerings on the Web. Recently I was referred to the auction of photographs from the 1920s that came from a footlocker owned by Charles J. Munz Jr. '23. First bid $20!

A couple more names from Garnnett's list of "lost Classmates." If you have any information about the following, please let us know: Raymond F. Crist III; George T. Hull; Roy H. Jordan and Charles W. Newland.

We were saddened to learn of the death of Armand Arthur "Chic" Bilodeau on 19 February at his home near Annapolis.

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Pres: CAPT A.E. (Gus) Hubal Jr., USN (Ret.) 6449 Johns Road, Falls Church, VA 22043 h: 703-533-3041; work fax: 703-534-8005 Sec'y: LCOL David B. Jones, USAF (Ret.) 6708 Pageland Lane, Gainesville, VA 20155-1513 h: 703-754-4492; e: djlocker@earthlink.net Webmaster: Paul Dudley e: pauld53@earthlink.net http://home.earthlink.net/~pauld53/usna53 It has been another nice month in paradise, or South Florida to be exact. The gardeners and the "eco" types are concemed that we are in a fairly

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severe drought but the golfers love it. We even welcome rain, as long as it comes at night and in the late afternoons. Have had more visitors: Martha and Hart Sebring spent a couple of nights and played a round of golf with us. Hart is a good golfer and had an easy mid-80 round the first time he played our course, even finding the water on occasion. Martha played for the first time in a year and played very well. She plays with a modification to the mles, which I think I may start playing also.

Par for her is seven (7) on every hole, no matter what the scorecard says it should be. She played nine holes with us and was five under par, which is not too shabby after a one-year layoff. They were fine and I think would have liked to stay longer, but Hart had to get back to help honcho the Annual '53 February Brunch, which was held at the Army-Navy Country Club in Arlington this year.

Before coming to see us, they had spent some time in the Jacksonville area helping their son. Hart Sebring Jr. '76, house hunt. Young Hart had just reported in to Mayport and they were successful in helping him find a home suitable for his wife and two kids. They also visited friends in Lake Wales, FL, where they used to live. We were sorry to see them go, but happy to know that the bmnch was a big success. An email yesterday from Hart reports that the ANCC outdid itself and all 55 attendees had a great time and agreed that it should be held there again next year Sue and Dick Albright also stopped by for a couple of days of fun and golf. Sue doesn't play golf, but she and Sally got some good shopping in and Sue is ready for the summer season and then some! After they left us, they drove over to what Al Higginbotham calls the "Best Coast" for a visit with Linda and Al at their Sarasota home. Sue reports that she got some more shopping in over there as well. The Albrights have just recently gotten a computer and joined the email crowd. Sue has really taken to it and is obviously spending more time on correspondence now that it is only a click away.

Keep those messages coming. Sue! Joyce and Don McVay finished their initial babysitting chore for their son, Jeff, and daughterin-law, Christy's kids and went north to the Orlando area to visit another son and daughter-in-law.

Last week, they retumed to the Fort Lauderdale area for a time-share week of fiin at the beach for themselves. We met them one aftemoon for a trip on the tourist boat, JLINGLE QUEEN, which sails out of the Bahia Mar Marina in Fort Lauderdale. For you mystery enthusiasts, Bahia Mar is the Marina where Travis McGee docked his houseboat, BUSTED FLUSH, in all those John McDonald mystery/suspense thrillers. There even is a marker at the location that McDonald said the BUSTED FLUSH was docked. JUNGLE QUEEN cmises through the city of Fort Lauderdale along the Intercoastal Canal, as well as the New River The narrator points out all the huge mansions and yachts and relates who they belong to, how much they cost etc. etc. It quickly becomes apparent that there are a lot of people in this country that have a whole lot of money; particularly when the nartator tells you that these are second, third or maybe fourth homes, and the owners are only in them for a couple of weeks or maybe a month each year The sad part was when we were told that even winning the lottery would not put one in the same category with these owners. They make on the order of a million a week or more and one would need that kind of income to support their kind of lifestyle. What the hell, we have a ten-yearold 24-foot pontoon boat and probably have as much fun on it as the rich people do on their 150 footersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;except when it rains. It was nice to visit with Joyce and Don, as well as with the Albrights and the Sebrings.

Last Saturday, we attended the memorial service for George L. Gravesen in Plantation, FL. He was the father of George L. Gravesen Jr. As I mentioned last month, Barbara and George were down here in Plantation taking care of Barbara's mom and George's dad. While we hadn't met George's dad, we knew that there were not many Classmates in the area to provide support. It was a lovely service and we both wished we had been fortunate enough to have known George's dad. He was an early audio/radio pioneer and was responsible for the audio system in the General Motors Futurama exhibit at the 1939 World's Fair in New York. I'm sure many of you were enthralled by that exhibit as we looked at GM's forecast on what the roads and highways would look like in the world of 1960.

At the reception after the service, we saw a book, given to Mr Gravesen by GM in thanks for his efforts, which was fiill of pictures of the exhibit and brought back lots of memories from when I was eight and we visited the World's Fair. Mr Gravesen also spent much of WWII as a naval commander assigned to the OSS in London. He developed the OSS radio stations that were used to commtmicate with agents throughout the ETO. In the '50s, Mr Gravesen ran the Radio Free Europe Radio Station. Sometimes we forget our parents and their accomplishments. It was good to be reminded that we come from interesting stock. Barbara and Tom "Sully" Sullivan were also at the services. Talking to Sully at the reception, he mentioned how long he had known Mr. Gravesen and how much he had liked him. As I was about to inquire how he knew him, Barbara Gravesen came by and said you knew that Barbara Sullivan was originally Barbara Gravesen? I hadn't, but it all became clear as I leamed that Barbara Sullivan was a first cousin of George Gravesen Jr The service was labeled a celebration of the life of George L. Gravesenâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;many services are so labeled, but this was truly a celebration of an interesting, important and well loved man. It was also memorable because of the lovely music supplied by the Gravesen family. George III sang several pieces during the service, his wife, Sherri, played the organ for him and for the hymns and George Jr and his sisters sang a piece. All were appropriate and well done. It is hard to say that one enjoyed a fiineral service, but I enjoyed this one and would have really liked to have known George's dad.

Got a phone call the other night from Joyce Flynn in Califomia. She asked if I had received the two letters she had sent me in December and had I already printed them? I had a terrible blank moment. Not truly a senior moment, but one of those times when you know you have seen something, but cannot remember where you put it or what you did with it. I couldn't remember whether I had already put it in a column or not. This may make it appear that I'm a bigger doofus than I really am, but you need to understand the Shipmate deadline system and how I operate under it. There almost always are two columns, and sometimes three, at Shipmate waiting to be published. It is now February and this is the May column I'm writing. I have yet to see the Jan-Feb, March or April issues of Shipmate, but I sent the '53 columns for them in months ago. After I send a column in, I go into a forget mode, and do not think much about the column until the next deadline is almost upon me. News and pictures that come in go into a large in-box (quite literally a box, cardboard, large).

Several days before the deadline, I go into the box and try to work up a topic outline, and then a day before I start typing. The computer has allowed me to cut out at least a full day or more of writing time. If nothing else, it eliminated the entire handwritten draft as one can correct and edit painlessly

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on the computer Additionally, I used to be a terrible typist—two fingered and very, very slow.

Now I'm not so terrible—still two or three fingered, but reasonably fast now. It makes a real difference.

Back to Joyce, I asked her to give me a chance to look through my records (box) and I would get back to her My fear was that in the process of loading the cars for the trip down to Florida after Christmas, I might have inadvertently left her letters in Virginia (there are several big boxes up there— mostly with old archival stuff in them, but...). Fortunately, after a frantic hour of searching, I found Joyce's two letters in the box. It was not the Shipmate box though. It was a box with Christmas cards that I needed to get addresses off, or note news for when we do next year's cards. The cards that come in that have Class news in them I usually get into the Shipmate box. I still haven't figiu-ed out the logic that put Joyce's letters in the wrong box. They were not Christmas cards and I had noted on the outside of the envelopes that they were for Shipmate. Obviously, it must be Sally's fault—she probably said, "Aren't you finished packing up yet?" I did get back to Joyce and made my mea culpas— hope they were abject enough because Joyce is a good cortespondent for the column and I really appreciate her input. After all the above, here is Joyce's news: In November, there was a Class of '53 mini-reunion of the 3rd Company in Las Vegas. The four members attending were Carl Benning, Ray Bright. Bob Struven and Pat Flynn. Jackie and Carl flew in from Texas, Jan and Ray drove up from San Clemente, Mary and Bob came from San Diego and Joyce and Pat drove from Glendale. Jan and Ray frequent Las Vegas, but the rest of the

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group hadn't been there for awhile. Joyce and Pat had not been there in 35 years. Joyce says, "The place sure has changed, but the group hadn't. They looked and acted the same as they did in '53." The picture she sent shows Bob, Pat, Carmen Miranda, Ray and Carl. They do sort of look like they did in '53, except maybe for Carmen.

The Herkners and the Flynns at the Jonathan Club The next letter states that the Jonathan Club in Los Angeles was a great place to watch the ArmyNavy game. Most of those in attendance were rooting for Army, but those of us rooting for Navy held them down and won the day. Representing the Class of 1953 were CAPT Richard Herkner, USNR (Ret.) and his wife, Elizabeth, and CAPT F. Patrick Flynn, USNR (Ret.), and his wife, Joyce.

There must have been ten TVs set up all around the dining room and terrace, but Joyce had her tape deck with Navy songs and when the commercials came on Navy songs drowned them out. In Joyce's words, "Great time, great group and we Beat Army...Go NavyV The picture taken at the Jonathan Club shows the Herkners and the Flynns.

Thanks, Joyce, great pictures and write-ups and I'm so sorry I put them in the wrong box.

Hal Walters who has been one of our neighbors and close friends down here has just informed us that he is going to move. He put his Lake Worth home on the market and sold it within a week for very close to his asking price—that never happens to us! Today he is en route to Brevard, NC, (near Asheville) to look at lots in a development at Eagle Lake, which I think is owned by Tom Taylor. Hal hopes to select a lot and a house plan (modular) from the plans that Tom's brother markets and builds. He has hopes of being in the completed home within three months. That is quick. Hope it all works out as Hal hopes. One thing that helps is that Hal's hobby is woodworking and he will be able to do much of the finish carpentry himself Other good things are that now he will be closer to his children and grandchildren as well as our cabin at Lake Louisa. Hal also sent a picture taken at our Super Bowl party that shows Don McVay, Hal Walters, Gus Hubal, George Gravesen and me.

Stub Chace had left before this shot was taken.

Thanks, Hal. Lee Hehbard (ssbn601bco@aol.com) emailed me a while back wanting to say hi to Classmates and wish all a Merry Christmas from Lee and Bev. They have been traveling the country the last two years in their 40-foot American Eagle motorhome.

They have been twice around the perimeter and had a ball. The main reason they wrote was to alert '53ers to the existence of a Naval Academy Recreational Vehicle group that was formed last year

by Paul "Mike" Stroop '54 (wermanda@aol.com) and Terry Sutherland '54 and Jim Roberts '59.

Bev and Lee attended theirfirstrally with the group last November in South Eastern Alabama at a Corps of Engineers campground and had a great time.

The "happy hours" were just that, and the singalongs with all the old Navy fight songs brought back memories of Plebe Year, and more. Needless to say the food prepared by the drags was outstanding. They even had a golf game at a local country club. If anyone desires more information, contact Lee or Mike Stroop via email. Please note the monthly report in Shipmate in the Chapter News section just before the Rhode Island report. Lee also reports that he and Bev have just started building a new home at a place called The Great Outdoors in Titusville, FL. It is a commimity that caters exclusively to people involved in the recreational vehicle lifestyle. When finished in the late fall, Classmates journeying past will be welcome. They hope to be back on the road by early June with a return to Titusville in mid-October Lee added that he talked to his old roommate. Bob Martin, the other day. Bob, who was from Ponca City, OK, now resides in Sarasota, FL, with his wife, Delores. Thanks, Lee. Tyke Furey forwarded an email message from Frank Roach (froach@olypen.com). In it Frank reports that he and Flavia have joined their farm property with adjacent property belonging to a neighbor for the purpose of building a public golf course in the Sequim, WA, area. Between them, they have 167 acres and after consideration by several architects, a wetlands specialist, the Department of Fish and Wildlife, the Department of Natural Resources (DNR-Forestry), the County, the City of Sequim and numerous other organizations, they are moving forward. They have completed the wetlands reconnaissance, the aerial mapping for our contour maps and have hired their architect.

They are about to move into the permit process, which is expected to take about five months. The permit stage also includes the preliminary routing for the course. It will be 18 holes, par 72. Their goal is a course that considers the best use of the land for golf and then they will look at what is left for housing or some other use. The course will be

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designed to be a challenge to all golfers from the retired, golden oldies (men and women) to the robust, yoimg, hot shots including the girls (George Hall calls them the flat-bellies). In the meantime they will be courting investors to ftind the $5.6 million needed for development. Oh yes—there will be a clubhouse (bam motif), driving range, maintenance shops and all the other amenities.

They anticipate opening to the public about Memorial Day 2002. Frank concludes by saying, "If you have a spare million or know of investors at the million-dollar level who would like to be on the board of owners, let us know via email."

Thanks, Frank and Tyke. How about investors at the $100 level?

Additional pictures this month include a shot of Bethel and Dr Sam Massie at the 45th. The shots of Lew Sykes with Joyce McVay and Madeline and Ed Spar were taken at our Aimual USMA '53USNA '53 Army-Navy luncheon. A good snap of Ellen and Bob Kassel was taken on the Hawaii trip. I love the background in the shot of Earl Griggs taken at the Hawaii game. A shipboard shot shows Frank Brady and Dick Wise at a small cocktail party. The shot of Curt Anderson with Dana and Chuck Walker was taken at the Seattle area A-N game party. Norma Raffaele is shown waving the flag with Bill Trueblood in the background at the Raffaele Army-Navy game party. The final shot shows Loretta and Jack Campbell at the Hawaii game. Thanks again to all our great photographers. Keep them coming in. If I have misspelled or had the wrong name for anyone, I apologize, my gouge may have been left in Virginia so I'm working on my 68-year-old memory— dangerous at times.

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Loretta and Jack Campbell at Aloha Stadium Don't forget the monthly Class Itmcheons are on the first Tuesday of each month at the Fort McNair Officer's Club at 11:30 a.m. If any one wants or needs Class of 1953 baseball-type caps from the 45th Reunion, please let me or Hart Sebring know, as we have some left oven Price for mine is $10 plus postage ($3.20 for Priority mail or about $2.00 for regular mail—I prefer Priority mail because I can get those free Priority mail shipping boxes). I think Hart sells at the same price and he has more than I have. His address is 3494 Barrister Keep Circle, Fairfax, VA 22031; 703 3522212; Hsebring@aoI.com. By the time you read this we will be back in Virginia at the Gainesville address.

My email should remain djlocker@earthlink.net.

There will probably be a summer pavilion function, but I have no details on it as yet. Look for a flyer, or bug Gus or Hart about it. Hope you all weathered the winter successfully and that we have a good Spring, Summer and Fall. I saw in the paper the other day that both the men's and women's basketball teams Beat Army\ Perhaps we are seeing the start of a precedent! Cheers to all, Dave

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Pres: COL Fitz W. Woodrow, USMC (Ret.) Sec'y: CAPT Oliver Shearer Jr., USN (Ret.) 9615 Podium Dr., Vienna, VA 22182-3338 h: 703-938-5211; e: ovshearer@erols.com Webmaster: Will Croom e: willyaye@hotmail.com Class Web site: http://www.usna54.net President's February message Happy February! This February has 29 days, so we all have more time to enjoy it. Thank goodness for the weather, it always gives us something to talk about. Last month Annapolis had 18 inches of snow, and Faye and I came down here to Myrtle Beach to get away from the white stuff, and Myrtle Beach got six inches of snow, and the temperatures are still cold. But, never you mind, the Dark Ages will soon be over, and we'll all get back to normal.

We all owe Les Huffman, 4th Co., a solid pat on the back for stepping right up and offering to our Class a mini-retmion in Orlando, FL, on the weekend of the Navy-Notre Dame football game (game day is Saturday, 14 October). Les put it together for the 4th Company, and was good enough to open it up to all of us. So, let's take advantage of a great idea, and say thanks to Les for all of his hard work. (Note: there is more below on this).

Will Croom, our Web master, is truly a master!

I really feel sorry for all of our Classmates who aren't on the Intemet and aren't able to enjoy all that he has done for the Class. So, Will, please don't stop what you are doing.

It was sad to leam that Charles Raymond "Ray" Merritt died on 22 Febmary at his home in Springfield PA. Ray started out in the 14th Co., shifted to the 2nd Co. youngster year and resigned in February 1952. Funeral services were held on 25 Febmary at the First Presbyterian Church of Springfield. This info was provided by Ray's son LT Charles R. Merritt Jr. '85, USN (Ret).

50th Reimion Planning by Dick Alger: I am going to provide you with 50th Reunion updates on both the Class Web site and this column. As the coordinator of this event I consider the process as a stewardship, i.e. take care of and improve on what has been accomplished by those before me. I want to provide an environment for Classmates and their mates to enjoy each other's company and to have fun.

Before it became formal at our 25th, Bob Olsen and I were engaged in anchoring several reunions (see reflections below). I then traveled the reunion trailfromA to Z and in between. Tom Albee for the 25th. Who remembers that before Class historian IVIike Nassr, Jane Poe published and then distributed our Class history at our 25th Reunion? The "Z," of course, is George Zeberlein along with Ted Walker (35th, 40th and 45th). In between, I became an "impressed seaman" for Guy Cane when he chaired the 30th. HopefiiUy they "leamed me well"!

Herb Hope and I have huddled and exchanged ideas. A number of Classmates have already volunteered to help. George and Ted will share info, advise and assist, but in a much less demanding way than in previous years. Among the volunteers so far are Jess Owens, Steve Eisenhauer, Jauncey Sweet, Ed Tipshus, and Bob Schlenzig. Ned Shuman may organize a golf outing if I can guarantee the same balmy weather, but less soggy ground we had on Friday of last year's Reunion.

My focus is to keep you informed over the next four-plus years, and hopefully not bore you. The following "Reunion Reflections," with your input, will be a monthly routine in this column.

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Reunion Reflections Can't remember the year (1968?) but Bob Olsen and I were informed that the Old Elks Club had been reserved for our Reunion. It didn't happen.

Instead, how many of you joined Joan and I at Sue and Bob Olsen's house in Annapolis for a unique experience?

How about the year or so after? Bob and I got our act together and reserved the Fleet Reserve Club on Annapolis Harbor Bar and snacks were available one hour after the last refrain of Navy Blue and Gold died away. Dinner after cocktails were to be followed by dancing to the "music of our youth." No! Three long haired guys showed up with guitars and drum. Our agent inadvertently cross-booked. Our Glen Miller look-alike was sent to a high school homecoming in Baltimore while we got the local version of "The Stones." Like always, '54 adjusted and, yes, we did dance.

More to come. What is your memorable reunion reflection? Email to Dick Alger at dicknjoan@ yahoo.com or 6504 Cygnet Drive, Alexandria, VA 22307-1312.

46th Mini-Reunion Les Huffman is organizing a reunion in Orlando during 12-15 October this year Room rates have been set at the Clarion Plaza Hotel at 9700 International Drive, Oriando, FL 32819-8258. Reservations can be made by calling toll free, 1-800627-8258, and ask for the U.S. Naval Academy rate which is $77 (single or double), $92 (triple) and $107 (Quad), plus 12 percent tax charge. Use your credit card to ensure your reservation. Les has blocked out 50 rooms from 9 October thru 14 October for those wanting to experience all the Disney activities. Golf will be scheduled for Friday for those wanting to play. Les will work up a form for that. He can also schedule tee times for Tuesday thru Thursday for golf fanatics at the International Golf Course about two miles south of the hotel.

The main event will be the Navy-Notre Dame game starting at 12 p.m. on 14 October at the Citms Bowl. Following activities are firm: Thursday, 12 October, registration in hospitality suite, 5 p.m.6:30 p.m. reception and cash bar; 13 October, 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. Class dinner; 14 October hospitality suite will be open all day. Buses are planned for transportation to game and back. Les is still working on tailgate details. 15 October 9:30 a.m.11:30 a.m. Class Farewell Brunch. Local jitney busses are available every 20 minutes. Rental car is not necessary unless you want to go to Disney or Universal. Tickets should be ordered via a special Class of 1954 NAAA form, beginning 1 May with cut-off of 15 June. Tickets are $35 each with a $4 processing fee. Call Les at 407-351-1682 or write him at 10653 William Tell Drive, Orlando, FL 32821 for ticket order forms. This notice went out in an "All 54" email in February and has been posted on the Class Web site since February.

'54 RVs congregate in Alabama

Herb Hope has been coordinating plans and proposals for this summer's Class picnic (ALA Chuck McLean and Fred Franco) during the June-August time frame. Bill Hargrave is looking into a Sevem River/Chesapeake Bay dinner cruise. The size of the boat will depend on the number of respondents. Please convey your preferences to Herb for consideration (power/sail, day/night, type meal, casual/informal, etc.). Contact Herb at 703-5839239 or email hhope(gerols.com. Another proposal came from Fred Franco, the new squire of Tilghman Island, MD, just south of St. Michaels, MD. Fred is looking at the feasibility of a Class activity at the Yacht Club in his new community.

Let Herb know what you would prefer Harvey Taffet sent a picture of himself and Mike Gubitosi '57 at their 50th reunion of the Nutley, NJ, High School Class of 1949. Mike then enlisted in the Navy as a white hat, went through NAPS and then joined our Plebes as the oldest member of their Class. In the picture, Harv is the young fellow on the right.

Taffet and Gubitosi On the road again! Mike Stroop reports that the RV Chapter did a "Come Around" at the Army Corps of Engineers Park near Eufaula, AL, last November Twenty-one grads attended and Mike sent a picture capturing our Classmates and wives on this caravan. Left torightare: Harriet and By Byington, Deanie and Terry Sutherland, Bo Newsome, Anne and Mike Stroop, Gerry and Bill Rodriguez.

From San Antonio Bill McKay writes that he and wife, Freddie, just retumed from skiing in Steamboat Springs, CO, and that the snow was great. Bill allowed that it was nice to visit and play but that he was getting too old to live there! While looking at the photos he took on the slopes. Bill found one of a 10th Co. grits, bacon and eggs breakfast at our 45th Reunion. Left to right: Freddie and Bill McKay, Gerry and Al Tisdale, Louise and Joe Zable.

Don Wilmer was among Classmates attending the wedding of Sue and John Woodward's youngest son, Dan, in Quincey, FL, last November Don included a photo of Classmates. L to r: Don Wilmer, John Woodward, Bill Daniels and Dick Gaskill.

Wilmer, Woodward, Daniels, and Gaskill I really appreciate the continuing stream of photos you keep sending of our 45th anniversary. Al Ferrer sent one of the 5th Co. enjoying themselves.

Left to right: Peg and Bill Greenlaw, Ernie Evans, Jack Anderson, Peggy and Mac Macleay, Sally and Phil Graessle, Phil Livingstone.

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Since Busch's Chesapeake Inn on US 50 East was demolished. Classmates in Annapolis have been holding their bimonthly luncheons at the Academy's Officer and Faculty Club on the Yard.

There is adequate parking next door, a separate room has been available, food and service has been good, individual drinks are served and there is a bar in an adjoining room. It was good to see Mauro Maltagliati out again at the 4 January luncheon.

Several of us in the Northern Virginia area have been joining the Annapolis luncheons.

Classmates in the Northem Virginia/Maryland area have been trying out Squire Rockwell's in Annandale, VA, as a possible successor to the Army-Navy Country Club for our monthly (second Wednesday) luncheons. The first one on 9 February had a good tumout and everyone wanted a repeat performance.

Shipmates, please remember that when you send photos to me they need to be prints from the negative. (Ed. Note: Shipmate now accepts digital photos that meet the specs posted on the Alumni Association Web site, www.usna.com/publications/ DigitalPhotoSpecs. All photos, hardcopy or digital, must be submitted to your Class Secretary.)

Your scribe, Ollie

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Pres: LCDR Dennis Sullivan, USN (Ret.) Sec'y: CAPT Thomas G. Kiefaber, USN (Ret.) 11814 Triple Crown Rd., Reston, VA 20191 h: 703-758-1077; e: KIEF55@aol.com http://members.aol.com/us55na/index.html Preparations for the 45th Reimion keep marching on. The Chesapeake Bay cruise on Thursday might be to a location other than Baltimore, due to time and price considerations. Reminder: Saturday evening will be an opporttmity for Classmates to organize smaller parties or dinners on a Company or Battalion basis. Several Companies are already making plans for get-togethers that evening. The 4th Battalion will be hosting a Saturday night gathering. It will probably be at the USNA Officer and Faculty Club with cocktails at 6:30 p.m. (cash bar), diimer at 7:30 p.m., buffet or sit-down in the $25 range. All Classmates will be invited.

A fine bimch of D.C. area Classmates and wives got together in Aimapolis on a late Febmary Saturday aftemoon to watch Navy dump Holy Cross in basketball, and then regrouped at the lovely Anne and Ted Parker (19) home to do some socializing and feasting. It was a delightfiU evening. Most of us were paying close attention to the Republican Primary results in South Carolina. You can guess what kind of mood that left us in. Attending were: AHce and Don Sturtz (23), Margo and Gary Snyder (01), Leslie and Jack Baldwin (13), Sabra and Bill Kennington (07), Tom Kiefaber (19), Hartley Holte (13), Mary Gail Buchanan, John and Jane Bersch (Dave Reynolds' (19) widow), Betsey and Bob Fountain (06), Denny Sullivan (13) with Barbara Bryant, Lucy and Hank Mustin (12), and Sheila and Cal Weaver (12). Holte and Weaver recently moved to this area from Indiana and New York, respectively.

Ray Hine (20) had a ball in Califomia recently and wanted to share it with us: Vu'ginia and I had a super two-week stay in the Pahn Springs, CA, area. We had the opportunity to visit and to play golf with Classmate Jim DeGroff (23). Jim lives on the private Nicklaus course at PGA West located at La Quinta in the Cochella Valley that includes Palm Springs, as well as Palm Desert, where we were staying. Jim and his lovely wife, Dine, hosted us at cocktails following golf at the Palmer course where Jim paired us up with Glenn Hatch 'S3. Another day, Jim hosted us at the Nicklaus course after which Jim and Dine put on a wonderful steak diimer from the grill. Their home is absolutely beautifiil, capturing Dine's wonderfiil interior design touches and the delightfiil location on the 12th green, per Jim's golfing eye. They both hope to attend the Reunion in October. We enjoyed Palm Desert so much that we hope to retum there next year, but for a longer stay. It was wonderfiil to view the Super Bowl and then to go out at half time to chip and putt golf balls in your back yard (15th green on the golf course, where we were staying). A dream come true!

Twenty-two Classmates and wives joined for cocktails and dinner at the Jamaica Village Clubhouse in Coronado Cays on 24 February. Joining the group were Patsy and Guy Grafius (10), who have left the Bellevue, WA, to build their new home in Scottsdale, AZ. Tom Emery (09), while visiting family in the area, joined the festivities. Others present included Teri and Tom Boucher (07), Lynne and Ned Floyd (18), PhyUis and Paul Grozen (07), Grace and Bob Hammond (01), Dick Jones (10), Ray Medeiros (03) and Barbara Oblinger, Penny and John Nyquist (16), Bob Price (06), Carol Schrader, Peggy and Hugh Webster

(12), and Karen and Bob Weir (21). Ray Medeiros won the door prizeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;what remained from the ban The world traveling Zipfs haven't slowed down.

Otto reports on their latest travel escapades: Peggy and I made a trip in November to Hawaii, combining several different activities around the Navy-UH football game. We spent our first week on the big island of Hawaii, staying at the Kilauea Military Camp (KMC), which is located inside the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.

The enclosed photo shows us on the edge of the Kilauea volcano caldera.

The Zipfs at Kilauea This volcano is still a very active one. We were able to see, from a far distance, red lava flowing down the side of the volcano. We spent the next week on Oahu. There, we met Kitty and Norm Wallin (08), now living in San Francisco, who were also staying at the Hale Koa. The second photo is of Norm, Kitty, and Peggy at the Hale Koa outdoor ban

The Wallins with Peggy Zipf at the Hale Koa We had gathered to view the usual beautiful Hawaiian simset. Notice that there is not even a glass of ice tea on the table! Our Oahu time included President Circle activities, and attending the wonderful Class mini-retmion arranged by Mary Lou and George Stott (17). They did such a superlative job in arranging and hosting events for us.

The Zipf family held an annual mini-reunion at the Army-Navy game (Debbie, Otto, Peggy, David and Laurie). We are looking forward, along with two additional family members, to attending the game in Baltimore in 2000.

As the millennium approached, Peggy and 1 boarded a cruise ship in Acapulco, Mexico. This was a trans-Panama Canal craise to Ft. Lauderdale, FL. The New Year's Eve celebration (sans Dick Clark!) was traly a memorable celebration. It took place in the Pacific, followed by our transit of the canal on 2 January.

Once back home, we then took a two week car trip in January. It started with a weekend in Ocean City, MD, which is an annual escape for Peggy's mother and siblings. Following this, we spent three great days exploring Charleston, SC, on our way to a week in Central Florida. The time in Florida was highlighted by two enjoyable events. The first treat, was the sights and sounds put on by Disney World at Epcot Center to celebrate the millennium.

The second event, was a very enjoyable dinner in Tampa. This was the first time since early in 1953 that three of us "wives" from the 15th Company have gotten together. The Taylors are retired in Sarasota, FL, and the Stuckeys in Sun City Center, FL. All of us retired from active duty in three different services; Joe from the Army, Bob from the Marine Corps, and Otto from the Navy. Peggy and I leave on our next sojoum in late Febraary to New Zealand and Australia. The picture shows Joe Taylor, Philly Taylor, Sue and Bob Stuckey (12), and Peggy and yours truly.

Two burning questions were answered recently on the '55 Listserv. One, how did our class crest and ring design come about? The other, is there still a China Fleet Club in Hong Kong? Regarding the first, Dick Dutnell (13) weighed in to Carl Peterson (13) with how he remembers it: One volunteer Plebe representative from each Battalion met early during our first academic semester. During this first meeting, I was elected president, and we discussed how and when to go about the Class crest selection process. (This was not exactly rocket science, because many had gone before us and defined a well-beaten path).

As Dan Butterfield (05) said, we went back to our Battalions, solicited ideas, and made rough sketches for committee consideration. These crude to well-done sketches were then converted to identically scaled production drawings by an outside source (Academy Art Dept., or one of the vendors, who knows?) so that the artistic execution would not be a factor in the voting. As 1 recall, Paul Farans submitted the Class crest idea that was selected by the Class (and I was sorely disappointed that my design was not). I don't recall the vendor selection process for fabrication of the Class pins, or how they were paid for, so all of that must have gone without a hitch.

Late in our 3rd or early in our 2nd Class Year, we met to start the ring conception, production and delivery process. Since there was little interest in the design of the rest of the ring, I took it upon myself to take my own thoughts and suggestions from the committee to draw up the bezel, the academy shield design, and the bottom

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Carl Peterson with his wife, Trudi, and daughter

Dick Morgan, Jack Renard, Monroe Hatch, Denny Sullivan and the Mustins portion of the ring. These were approved by the committee, drawn in final form for production, and made a part of the bid package to the vendors. Therefore, I am to be blamed, or given credit for, the overall design of the ring, including the Academy shield side (1 didn't want the eagle defecating on the shield). I don't recall any tie among the vendors in the ensuing bid review and selection process, because—all other aspects being the same—Jostens came in with the highest Brinell hardness test results, hands down. Period. End of discussion and review process!

If anyone wants to get his ring reworked in any way, they should contact Jostens at their Naval Academy Service Center (800-264-9296; myersm(3ijostens.com) to find out how much to ensure it for when mailing (depending on your exact configuration, your $90-plus ring now costs S800-plus to replace). There is no charge to resize the ring or to replace synthetic stones (providing no other jeweler has worked on it). A total remake, such as I had done nine years ago, now costs $50 plus $5 handling.

This may have been more than you wanted to know about the ring business, Carl, but I couldn't help myself Looking forward to the Reunion and seeing you both again.

The other question was answered by Paul Grozen: Phyllis and I visited Hong Kong in October '98 at the beginning and end of a trip to Japan, China, and Singapore. It's no longer called the China Fleet Club; it's called the "Seaman's Club," or something like that. It also isn't in its old location—that area has been redeveloped. It's now located right on the waterfront at the fleet landing, about a half mile to the left of the Star Ferry landing, as viewed from Kowloon. With those differences and a modernized building the rest of the act is still the same. There are several floors of merchants confracted by the Navy to sell there.

We found the prices to be good, although the days of the real Hong Kong bargains are long gone.

We were shopping for a Chinese carpet and had the advantage of being able to price what we wanted in Hong Kong, compare during ten days in China, and then go back to buy it in Hong Kong. We found the quality and price to be much better at the fleet club than in China.

I don't know if the organization running it is still called the Navy Purchasing Branch, but 1 would guess that it is. Someone with Supply Corps connections might be able to answer that.

The Fleet Post Office is still located there, which is very handy for mailing things home. There's also a branch of NFCU there.

I hope to have this year's D.C. area golf schedule by the next column. Have included several snaps taken at recent golf outings and tailgates.

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More travel news, now from Dick Morgan (03): Joanie and I usually travel on our ovra, however, this was our first planned tour and it was wonderful. One week in Cascais, Portugal (on the ocean outside of Lisboa), a week in Albufiera, Portugal (on the ocean in the Algarve), and a week in Torremolinos, Spain (on the Mediterranean in the Costa de Sol). Lots of included tours, but little packing and unpacking, because we were in one hotel for a week at a time and all meals were included. We extended a week, rented a car and took the sights we wanted that were not included on the tour Budget and Administration of Midshipmen's Pay The following information for '51-'55 is interesting and, in some cases, humorous: Required Expenditures: $2,384.97 (e.g., Service Dress Blues—$71.50; Class Ring: $75). Authorized Exfra-Curricular Activities: $244.20 (e.g., Graduation Aimouncements: $3; Initial Membership Alumni Association: $2). Money Allowances (Leave, Cash, Midshipman's Store Credit): $1,386 (e.g., Christmas Leave $20; Cash: $13/ month-1/C Year; $45-2/C Cruise). Pay: $4,034.14 (e.g., $84.50/month-l/C Year).

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Annual Membership: 43% Life Membership: 32%

Class Executive Committee Co-Chairmen: CAPT Douglass F. Dayman, USN (Ret.) (11) COL George Mushaiko, USAF (Ret.) (15) Secy: Pete Randrup (3) e: hardhead@erols.com; h/f: 410-243-0552 4407 Atwick Road, Baltimore, MD 21210 Web Page: http://home.att.net/~US56NAindex.htm Email Changes Change in Class Prime Email List Effective 1 June 2000, the email list 56USNAHotList shall be renamed 56USNA. The new list shall continue to handle the quick, easy distribution of your email to the subscriber Classmates. In addition, the 56USNA list provides you with the '56 email directory service (see note below), updated by the subscribers, and available online with the latest possible information.

The list shall handle only messages that are on personal. Class, or Academy subjects. It continues as a private group rather than being in the public domain. Each Classmate who is a subscriber should send his messages directly to the 56USNA@ onelist.com address. It is quicker that way and more likely to be accurate as well.

Class Email Directory Note The member list for 56USNA is available via the ONElist's MyGroups Web page by clicking on the "Change Profile" item (http://www.onelist. com/mygroups). It is in fact the "Class of '56 Email Directory" from now on. This list of members should be as current as possible, for it is maintain by the individual subscriber! The key is to make a timely submission of the change directly to your profile before any address changes are executed

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(in other words, submit the change while still using your old address), and voila, it's updated. The secretary shall insure periodic distribution of the directory is made to the few Classmates who are using Jimo and Clinkers addresses—they do not have Web access. But others are requested to use die Member list for the 56USNA list.

Subscribing Note To subscribe to the prime Class list: Prior to 1 Jime 2000, go the ONElist Web subscription page at http://www.onelist.com/subscribe/56USNAHotList. 1 Jime 2000, and afterwards, you execute the subscription by going to that page at http:// www.oneIist.com/subscribe/56USNA. Subscription requires that you provide registry information that is used to establish the member list with yoiupersonal email address. Those without Web access should contact the secretary for instractions.

The Email Task Force This change has been in the works for a couple of months and has incorporated the thoughts of the listed moderators who manage the traffic flow.

Their diligent work is greatly appreciated. Bravo Zulu go to Ed Covey (7), Ken Costilow (7), Harry Hicks (13), and John Lally (13). By the way, if you would like to help, please contact the secretary. Always things to do and the brainstorming process always needs fresh thoughts!

In Memoriam Since graduation, the Class has remembered its members who have passed on. Now it is honoring Dick Drew (7), our only Classmate to die while we were at the Academy. We lost him in May 1954, well before we were making use of the Shipmate Class columns. The Class has remembered him with a stadium seat and now we are remembering him in our Shipmate Class column as well. He was a good Classmate and friend.

Richard Albert Drew, 8 August 1932-24 May 1954 During our Plebe Summer, Fourth Class Year, and Youngster Craise to Brazil, Dick's natural leadership, scholarship, athletic ability, and personality earned him the respect of every member of the Class of 1956. His death was a loss to each of us and to the Navy.

The son of Joseph L. and Grace R. Drew, Dick was bom in Washington, D.C. His father, now deceased, was a high school teacher, and his mother was an editor Dick had two brothers, Joseph C. and Eric Ridgely Drew. Eric, died in 1997, but he also entered the Navy serving during the Cuban Missile crisis. The Memorial Log at the Navy Memorial Visitors Center in Washington, D.C, contains entries and photographs for both Dick and Eric.

Dick was the nephew of Dn Charles R. Drew, who, as the chief surgeon at the Washington Freedmen's Hospital and as professor of surgery at Howard University, developed blood plasma just prior to the outbreak of World War II. This dynamic development was responsible for saving the lives of countless numbers people who thereafter had lost blood during surgeries, accidents, or wars.

Home for Dick while growing up was in Arlington, VA. He graduated in 1949,fromArmstrong High School. With an NROTC scholarship in hand, Dick began his collegiate studies at Comell University.

In January 1951, Dick entered the New York National Guard. During his stay in New York, he earned a nomination to the Naval Academy from Representative Adam Clayton Powell. On 30 June 1952, he was sworn in as a Midshipman, USN. During his Youngster Craise on DE LONG (DE684), Dick began having headaches. These were severe enough that, upon returning to Annapolis, he reported to the USNA Hospital. In turn, he was transferred to the U.S. Naval Hospital in Bethesda, where he was diagnosed as having a brain tumon He remained there until his death many months later

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On 28 May 1954, funeral services were held at the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church, in Washington, D.C. Burial with honors at the Arlington National Cemetery took place with the following men from the Naval Academy as pallbearers: Lucius P. Gregg Jr. '55; Clifford A. Borden; Richard C. Carrigan; Edward J. Covey; Alexander E. Fazekas; Karl L. Peterson; Ned C. Roberts; and Edward A. Sechrest.

Leave in my dreams your plenitude of thought that to the world is lost. By Nathalie Cole-Johnson: "Legacy from a Friend" in the The Rideley Connection, Fall 1997.

Class News and Happenings USNA AA Recreational Vehicle Chapter, Dick Walsh (5) suggested that others besides "J" Westerhausen (11) turn to and become a membership in the USNA AA's RV Chapter. "Lots of perks for three-dollar annual dues—If solvency is maintained," said founder Mike Stroop '54. Here's sidebar: Mike must have grabbed his public relations background in the First Batt. Chapter meetings are called "Come Arounds"...the Chapter's leaders are termed "Firsties"! My guess is that the Chapter president, Jim Roberts '59, is called the "Wheeling 3-Striper." They seem to fill a fraternal need for those numerous Boat Schoolers who are on the road these days. The Chapter publishes a neat newsletter titled, "Over the Horizon," and a membership register One very neat aspect of their spirit: The Chapter has a good works project. This coming September, the members will work on a Habitat for Humanity home, the project's 100,000th, alongside Rosalynn and former-president Jimmy Carter '47. That shows a lot of Class.

For those interested, the Chapter has a Web page available for you to check out (http://www.icbm. com/rvhomepage.html) and for their newsletter (http://members.tripod.com/rvchapter). Keep us posted Dick and J—you are in very good company.

Danny Michaels (10) sent in his report on memorial projects in his company. In the Spring of 1997, it came to the attention of the guys in the 10th Company that one of their three deceased Classmates did not have a memorial chair in the Navy Marine Corps Memorial Stadium. We decided to do something about this type of situation.

Therefore, in May 1977, a letter was mailed to all '56 Companymates stating that a memorial fimd was being established for the purpose of having enough funds to insure that all 10th Company deceased Classmates would have a memorial chair established in their memory, and thereby relieving each family of the $300 cost burden for a memorial chair Since the fund's inception, another 10th Company '56er has passed away and now all deceased Classmates from the 10th Company have memorial chairs in their memory. Annually in January the fiind manager sends a '56 10th Company Memorial Fund status report to his Companymates and reminds each that it's time for annual contributions for those who are so inclined. Shortly thereafter, checks start arriving and the fund continues to grow and currently has enough funds for seven additional memorial chairs.

It is hoped that other companies will follow suit and do likewise. From time to time there may be a few deceased '56 Classmates who do not have memorial chairs in their memory yet established.

And it would be nice to have a full muster there.

Should you have any questions concerning establishing a company memorial fund just contact me at djmich@earthlink.net, or write at 1732 N. Woodhouse Road Virginia Beach, VA 23454, in the Spring of 1997 it came to the attention of the '56ers from the Virginia Beach, VA 23454.

MOD Watch—Bill Schoessel (8) confirmed the

word that Lee Brantley (8) did pass away back in '54, shortly after he resigned. They were good friends, and those good times earlier on are not forgotten. Bill also passed on the word that indeed Al Cline (8), his roommate, lives in Rush, KY. Earlier in a letter to Jim Van Metre (4), Al brought us up on his doings: After resigning in April of 2/C year, 1 joined the Air Force and played basketball for two years at Kelly AFB. Then went on to do 18 months at the USAF Security Service in Germany. There I also ran the base sports program and coached the base Softball team. In 1960,1 retumed to the Bluegrass State, and enrolled in the elecfrical engineering program at the University of Kentucky.

The next year I had that B.S. in hand and went to work for the Kentucky Power Company. Thirtyfour years later, in 1995,1 retiredfromthe same company. Pat and 1 return to Crabtown every year Her mother lives in Eastport. As often as we can, usually for a two-week visit, afriendof mine from Bay Ridge and I go crabbing on the Bay. We are planning to attend the 45th Reunion, and catch up with the guys from the 8th Company and others. Memories are a thing! Take care, Al. Last year, Al and his wife, Pat, visited Bill and Bonnie. Kentucky suits them very well and they looked fit. During the aftemoon, up came the famous Al as a notable MOD story: Seems that the MOD watch that Sunday aftemoon was one long, silent, lonely, boring ordeal. Now you may have occassions like that and also witaessed the Devil showing up at times like this (as in the movie "Animal House"). What do you think would happen to our famous salt water sanitary facility if... For some unknown source, he finds a cherry bomb in his hand? The impulse was not to be denied. He lit the fuse and flushed it down a toilet. Well somewhere in Crabtown that aftemoon children were playing in a park, and soft music floated through the open cottage window, but in the Third Wing that day, a glimpse of the Roadrunner cartoon came to life. The toilet shattered into a million little cracks and then just boomed into history. The situation had him, being the MOD there was no escape. Al earned a Black "N" that fateful day, and made quite a name for himself in the process.

'56 Gatherings Tidewater Virginia Tom Scott (24) reported on a very salty bunch of '56ers who met on 4 Febraary for their regular bi-monthly luncheon meeting at the NAS Oceana 0-Club. Here's the line up for the Virginia Beach styled "Noon Meal" inspection: Tom Scott (24), Fred Adams (23), Don Johnston (15), Boom Cannon (4), Hoot Foote (12), Ken Costilow (7), Jack Mclntyre (15), Hal Ellis (5), Dick Swanenberg (13), andAl Newbury (12), Perry Stone (17), Dave Carre (8), Al Gaylor (15), Danny Michaels (10), Vem Bush (9), and Robbie Robertson (2). As always, they have the welcome mat out for any '56er traveling in the Tidewater area to join them. Guaranteed good time!

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Pres: CAPT Walter T. Meukow, USN (Ret.) Sec'y: CAPT W. H. Peerenboom, USN (Ret.) 1003 Rachael Lane, Vienna, VA 22180-6473 e: whpeerenboom@compuserve.com or 102424.577@compuserve.com or whp36@aol.com I am sad to report the death of another Classmate, Bob Began, a Companymate of the Third Company. As many of you know, Bob served in the Air Force, and later was ordained into the priesthood of the Greek Orthodox church. I know the Class joins me in expressing heartfelt sympathy to Marie and others of Bob's family. He will be sorely missed.

This is a very sparse month for Class news, but, paradoxically, I think we have been in touch more in the past several weeks than at nearly any time since graduation (excepting reunions, of course).

And the reason, of course, is modem technologyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; the Class online email forum (www.onelist.com) that Fred Dammann began for us last millennium.

It has proven to be an excellent vehicle for sharing both news and (more prevalently) views on a variety of topics in a very timely manner I highly recommend that those of you reading this, with email access, click on and join up. Having said that, I want to remind you all that it is not a substitute for your letters and email to the Class in this forum, because, among other benefits, we do pictures!

On that note, here is a traly remarkable letter and picture (although the fact that it is in black and white will detract somewhat), sent in by Bruce Friederich: As you know, I have had a long and close (I dare not say "intimate" ) relationship with the bicycle. What you may not know, is that 1 have been a woodturner for 20 years. The idea grew after the cross country ride in 1998 to make a bike out of wood, since most of the parts could be fully or partially tumed on the lathe. The chain was hand made, the spokes are one-eighth inch dowels that already existed and were purchased.

Everything else, including the stand, was built between October '98 and November '99. Some of the parts were carved, and some were tumed, then cut in pieces and reassembled. In the photo, I'm wearing the denim shirt with the Class crest that I purchased at the 40th Reunion.

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Bruce, that is truly a work of art! And it is impressive that after all these years, you still make use of the lathe training we got Plebe Summer in '53! Isherwood Hall may be gone, but its spirit lives on in your work.

Getting back to inputs from the Class online foram, we do get some material that should be shared in this column, as the following exchange between Monty Knapp and Dave North illustrates: I've enjoyed reading all the "stuff" that appears in the daily digest.

1 have a very good friend that works at Trimble Navigation (TRMB) where the 9th Company's Brad Parkinson was CEO for awhile. In my friend's annual holiday message, he included the Who's Where page from the 12 July 1999 Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine that had the following under the Honors and Elections heading: "Bradford W. Parkinson, Edward Wells professor of aeronautics and astronautics at Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, has won the 'Elmer A. Sperry Award'for 1998 for leading the concept development and early implementation of the Global Positioning System. The award recognizes contributions to engineering that 'advance the art of transportation.'" While this is old news, it is doubtful that it was shared with Classmates. 1 am proud to be a member of the Class of '57 and take pride in the achievements of all my Classmates. Even to where 1 go and brag on 'em.

To which Dave replied: Monty, Always enjoy a positive reference to Aviation Week & Space Technology. We did run the reference to Brad Parkinson in the 12 July issue. We also gave Brad a Laurel Award in 1993 for his work in GPS. We only give out Laurels once a year, so the award was prestigious and well deserved. I find reference to USNA grads (all classes) in the aerospace industry quite often, and often meet grads during my forays into industry and military operations. -Dave North, Editorin-Chief, AW&ST, USNA '57 (6th Company) As continues to be the case, this is an excellent example of the great influence and impact our Classmates have on our country, and is a constant source of pride for all of us! Well Done, Brad, and thanks to Dave for being in a position to give such eminent recognition, and to Monty for bringing it to our attention.

This is a bit old, but thanks are always welcome, and John Shewmaker sent in this letter he received in recognition of his and the Class' kindness over the last Christmas holiday to those less fortunate: 1 received a note from the Assumption Outreach Program dated 28 Decemberl999 as follows: "Dear John, Our thanks to you and to the Class of 1957 for the donation of toys to the Assumption Outreach Program. Once again, we signed up far more families than was reasonable (600), but, individuals, parishes, schools and the USNA Class of '57 came through and we were able to take care of all the youngsters and fami-

lies on our list. Please express our gratitude to all who participated in this activity. There certainly are lots of folks "out there" who show their concem for the less fortunate and share with us.

Thanks again!"

That is about it for this month; hopefully as spring takes over from the Dark Ages, more of you will find time to get in touch! But, as a reminder of the holidays past, I have included some additional pictures from the 1999 Christmas Party organized by Monica and John Shewmaker with the support of Ann and Dave Thomas (who used his considerable influence and membership to arrange the wonderful venue of the Army and Navy Club in downtowTi Washington. Stay in touch, and Beat Army]

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dential candidate, or others who have gone on to become industry leaders, college deans, doctors, dentists, lawyers, authors, clergymen, entrepreneurs, civil servants, cops, and a multitude of occupations. None of us thought of becoming information technology professionals, or were much aware that there was something coming beyond the analog range-finden These completed 45 years have pointed us in hundreds of different directions, most unplanned and unforeseen, except for that common goal of getting through the "four years together by the bay." And while we continue on our individual merry ways, we always pull back to that starting cohort with a sense of wonderment and pride in being part of a unique Class. Now let's go see what the unique have been up to the past couple of months!

Traveling continues to be the primary activity of many in the Class, and from these travels come great stories and flag-photos. For example, a tale from Bunny and Bing Bassett (18), RVers on the road to happiness.

We have been fiill time on the road for about five months now and we are just enjoying the heck out of it. We are on our way west across Texas and stopped for a few days at Seminole Canyon State Historical Park in Texas. The park features ancient prehistoric rock art, rugged limestone terrain, and spectacular canyons. We took a tour of Seminole Canyon and saw hundreds of drawings on the canyon walls and shelters, some made more than 4,000 years ago. While waiting to go on the tour, I saw a guy with a Navy ball cap. When I started over to him to see what we had in common, he said, "Bing? Bing Bassett?"

It was Russ Henderson (9), whom 1 had not seen since graduation. I asked him how he could recognize me after so many years...not until we talked for a while did I remember himfromAcademy days. He replied, "You look like an older Bing Bassett." He was heading east while we were heading west and we ran into each other at an obscure, but absolutely fascinating, state park, off the beaten track. We grilled hamburgers with Russ and Joan and other friends and watched the sun set over the Texas scrub country and behind the distant mountains as four deer stately paraded by, about 75 yards away. It was truly a serendipitous occasion and Russ gets the prize as far as I am concemed for remembering faces and names.

This is not the first time we have received reports of the Classmates encountering each other in obscure places, so explain what strange force is compelling these imique travelers to arrive at the same time in the same place. How could eastbound LT Poj Walters (6) and westbound LT Bill Diesing (4) both have been passengers landing at Lajes, Azores, in 1960 and end up standing next to each other in the O'Club men's room? How could Frank Conery (13) and Paul Herner (20) bump into each other in an RV park laundry in backwater Alabama? Mystic forces at work, mates. Got more proof? Send it in!

Pres: Lt Col Gordon M. Gerson, USAF (Ret.) e; gmgerson@erols.com Sec'y: Col Warren S.Walters, USMC (Ret.) 5664 Ravenel Lane, Springfield, VA 22151-2430 h: 703-321-9586; e: wwalters@mail.erols.com Web page: http://www.usna.com/Classes/1958/

One of our other travelers has provided us with a flag photo of a new location. Last October, Shari and John Dean (22) from San Diego rented a villa in San Gimignano, Italy, along with three other couples for a two-week vacation. From that location, they traveled to Florence, Siena, Cortona, Volterra, Pisa, Lucca, Cinque Terre, and the Chianti area. They then spent several days in Venice and Lake Como. In John's words, "It was a fantastic trip!" If anyone would like information concerning villa rentals in the Tuscany area or would like to find out about the areas they visited, you can contact John at jdeanl @san.rncom. Oh, about the photo.. .they didn't say where it was taken, but it must be someplace famous!

Shari and John Dean somewhere in Italy As for the sailors aboard the Double Eagle II, Joan and Rupe MacLean (21), they spent the uglier months of the year (for those in northem climes) basking in the sun and lolling their way aroimd the Bahamas. They have encountered several craising friends from all over the east coast, but no other Classmates in their travels among the islands. Rupe provides very descriptive reports of their sailing adventures, and for those who never got their sea legs, the vicarious thrill is evenly tempered by the nerve-wracking events that befall them. The great thing about the MacLeans is that, like successful seamen, they go out and they come back! But where are the pictures that prove it?

Perhaps the most peripatetic Classmate during the past few months has been Senator John McCain (17) as he crisscrossed the nation in pur-

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Five months are almost behind us in this last year of the millennium (oh yeah, that argument again), as our voyage pushes on to its 46th year as a Class group. When one thinks back about the promise of the Class of 1958, there probably was some feeling that in the Class there would be a flag rank officer or two, but beyond that, the aspirations were limited compared to the reality of today. None of us ever considered that we would have a Classmate floating untethered in space, one performing on the Ed Sullivan show, one being a presi'58ers at McCain Rally in Rhode Island Shipmate, May 2000

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suit of the Republican nomination. Sightings and photos from Classmates all over the country have chronicled these travels, and this month is no different. We reported in the last column about the visit to Greenwich, RI, and this month comes a photo to share more of this Classmate experience.

Bobbi Wright, wife of JC Wright (8), took the picture in the Varnum Armory in Greenwich, which is now home to a Colonial Guard. Representing the Old Guard of '58 in front of their Class flag are Jerry Fraher (14) and wife, Pat, JC Wright, Diane and George Brenner (1), Shirley and Tracy Kossoff (11), and Nancy and Russ Mowery (21).

Joan Lipsitz and Paul Stiller (20) arrived too late to make it into the picture, but were there to cheer John on.

A very short note catches the Class up with Hugh Palmer (14), who says the name of his company was changed some years ago to Palmer Metal and Roofing Systems, Inc., down in the Dunedin, FL, area. The company constructs and erects pre-engineered metal buildings and installs metal roof systems on commercial and industrial projects. No residential! Hugh has built warehouses, car dealerships, body shops, churches, and strip malls.

So that he can enjoy retirement, the company is only dealing with past customers and not taking on new customers.

Here are some changes of address. Clark Dyck (14) out in Upland, CA, has changed to clarkdyck.colleendyck@gte.net. Down in Florida, Tony Miller (23) has a new phone number, 321777-0436. In the D.C. area. Classmates welcome the retum of Betsy Carson, widow of our late Classmate, Mickey Carson (5). She is residing at 6821 Melrose Drive, McLean, VA 22101 and on the net as bcarson@erols.com.

The Class Web site, which is under "Classes" on the Alumni Association server (www.usna.com), is proving a very effective way to get out shortnotice news and display digital photos sent in by '58ers. Shipmate still requires film-developed photos due to resolution requirements, so if you have real pictures, they get put in the Class column. (Ed. Note: Shipmate is now accepting digital photos that meet the specifications posted on the Alumni Association Web site, www.usna.com/publications/ DigitalPhotoSpecs. All photos, hardcopy or digital, must be submitted to Shipmate from the Class Secretary.) If you have digital pictures, they go on the Web site. Send either brand of photos and column stories to the "Prince of Prints," Walters, using the addresses at the head of the column. Your suggestions for Web site appearance or flash newsitem coverage are still eagerly accepted. Send those to the Baron of Broadband, Web master Fred Victor, avictor@erols.com. If you are changing any of your addresses, those go to the Duke of Databases, Gordon Gerson at gmgerson@erols.com.

On the Web site Binnacle List, the story of Pete Westphal (1) and his new knee was published, but it is worth telling again for those who are computer challenged.

Congratulations to the' Cla^ of 2000!

Dear Family and Friends, Many of you know that 1 have been struggling with osteo-arthritis in my knees for the past few years. Last Spring, 1 had had enough. I began the process of getting a knee replacement. After fighting through the retired military/Tricare red tape for several months, I was able to go to the doctor of my choice. 1 received my new knee on Monday, 7 February at Alexandria Hospital. 1 went into the hospital Monday morning and was discharged Thursday afternoon after the physical therapist cleared me. My recovery so far has been amazing. 1 can bend my knee almost to 90 degrees and my doctor wants me at 125 degrees four weeks after surgery. I feel that goal is achievable if 1 do my PT; the onus is on me, which 1 gladly accept. 1 am absolutely astonished at what they can do with joint replacement these days. 1 expect to be back walking the golf course in three to four months pain free in my right leg. If not, it won't be from the lack of effort. 1 have received notes, calls and prayers from many of you. 1 can't thank you enough. There is such a wide range of people 1 wanted to know about this, that 1 am using the latest medium.

A note from Phil Taylor (1) puts him on the Binnacle List also. In early Febraary, he had just retumed from Vanderbilt Medical Center, where he imderwent a cardiac catheterization. He now has three metal stents in his right coronary artery. Phil tumed 67 in March, and is "pressing on."

The end of Febraary also saw the submission of season ticket applications for Navy football fans.

They were extremely early this year, as the NAAA is attempting to get its arms wrapped around the Army-Navy game in Baltimore way far in advance.

Season ticket holders could buy four Army-Navy game tickets with their regular purchase. The whole schedule for ticket purchases is posted on the Athletic Association Web site, accessible from the Alumni Association site identified earlier in the column, but you should make up your mind early if you are going to attend the game and get your tickets immediately. This is also the year that Navy plays Notre Dame in Orlando, FL, and travel and ticket information are also available on the Web. As a result of having attended a Marine Corps Birthday Ball which recognized departed Marines with an empty table, Maj Dick Alexander, USMC (Ret), 6th Co, has asked that the following be published on the Web site and in Shipmate: This is what I'm going to do with my two season tickets to our home football games. These seats will be dedicated to the memory of Wes Fhenegar and all our other Classmates who can no longer be with us, and will remain empty during the playing of our home games. 1 will be commissioning a plaque in this regard and will develop a plan to have it emplaced for the playing of each game so that our Classmates and all others in the vicinity may view it.

As many Classmate memorial chairs were established prior to the Class obtaining permanent seating in the stadium, their chairs are located elsewhere in the stadium. This will bring recognition to many of those into our Class area. There are curtently seats dedicated to those Classmates we lost in Vietnam in the following locations: Browne, Edward R. (5) Sect 28 Row 19 Seat 24; Held, John W. (3) 104/3/19; Peterson, Carl J. (11) 28/ 15/13; and Phenegar, Wesley R. (12) 28/4/16. The new memorial chairs will be in the same row and just a few seats removed from the chairs honoring Classmates Carlito Cunanan (6) and Frank "Pooch" Caldwell (6). This is a fitting gesture to all our departed Classmates by Dick Alexander Lastly, we must close on a couple of sad news items. On 28 Febraary, Bev Werbel, the wife of Sam Werbel (23), passed away in Norfolk, VA, as a result of breast cancer after a long period of suffering.

Earlier in the month, on 2 February, we lost Classmate Francis Joseph "Joe" Moran (13) af-

ter his straggle of the past months, also with cancer Joe had come home in Concord CA, from the hospital in December on what he knew was his last trip, and many Classmates contacted him during those last months of illness. His wife, Pat, has sent her thanks to those who helped buoy his spirits. The obituary for Joe appears in the "Last Call" section of this issue.

The Class offers its condolences to both families upon these losses.

'58 Trivia Dick Beam (21) was the first in the Class to wear jump wings, as he showed up as a Plebe wearing them based upon his U.S. Army service. Now a geriatric memory test, because this question was used in the column in December 1986. Who is the oldest member of the Class of 1958? And he's still around...we think! Hasta Luego! WSW

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Pres: VADM Francis R. Donovan, USN (Ret.) Chairman Exec. Committee: CAPT Norbert H. Bednarek, USNR (Ret.) e: bednarek@annap.infi.net Exec. VP; Joe Flynn Admin. VP: Gary Geist Exec. Sec'y: Bruce Nordwall Corp. Treasurer: Dave Osbum Sec'y: CAPT John A. Butterfield, USN (Ret.) 1130 Sugar Sands #190, Singer Island, FL 33404 w: 561-840-1104; h: 561-881-7512 f: 561-863-8984; e: jbsgma@aol.com www.roanoke.kl2.va.us/Dave'sWorld/usna59.html Good morning '59ers! Hope this Rise 'n Shine report finds you well and that Spring has sprang wherever you may be located. In addition to your spring house-cleaning, I wish you would include getting some of the "stuff" off your desks and out of your minds, put it on paper or in an email, and send it to your loyal, still cub reporter Maybe after I have done this column for a few more years, I will get it right. And so I shall continue my "practice" with another epistle, which unfortimately will begin with sad news. It may have been included at the end of last column, as a postscript of sorts, but I have a few more details about the death of David Johnson of the 24th Company. Friend and Classmate Ray Yenchko was so good to call me as soon as he heard of the great loss. I made sure Ray and Norm Bednarek were in touch. Here is how Norm passed the word on to the D.C. area call tree (thanks to the always r e a d y ' n able Dick "Robby" Robinson) and the Class email network: Dave passed away on 30 January 2000. He had been suffering from diabetes for some time.

While at his summer home with his son, his eyes failed and he fell down the stairs, sustaining massive brain injuries. He survived under intensive care long enough for the family to gather and say their good-byes. He had been medically retired from the Marine Corps after seven years of service. The viewing was on 1 February; the funeral held on 2 Febmary at Holy Nativity Lutheran Church, 3900 Winnetka Avenue North, New Hope, MN 55427. David was buried at Fort Snelling. His wife, Judy, requested that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the Holy Nativity Lutheran Church Memorial Fund in memory of David C. Johnson. You could express your sympathies with a note sent to Judy at their home address, 4081 Flag Avenue N, New Hope, MN 55427. Judy, our hearts and prayers reach out to you, the whole family, and your many friends around the country!

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Griff Hamilton (griffo5334@cs.com) retired on 31 December 1999 from his work at ARINC in Aimapolis. What a good guy! ARINC's loss is '59's gain! But one should ask is the retirement due to wearing Griff out with all the work he did to make our 40th Reunion such a smashing success? No, I would much rather prefer to think that Griff (and Linda) merely wanted to have a lot of time to prepare for the 45th Class Reimion. We should feel blessed that Griff has already volunteered to be the coordinator for our next major reunion. Wish him well and encourage him, help him, volunteer in some capacity to keep Class momentum building and let us have as great a tumout (and so many wonderful activities) as we had at the last one. But of course we want to do something special for our Naval Academy in 2004! What we did for the USNA Chapel and the Memorial Chairs in Alumni Hall were very, very special. If you have any ideas or suggestions, pass them along to our Class President, Frank Donovan, Norm Bednarek, Joe Flynn, Griff, or me. '59 wants to continue to shine!

And speaking of shine, you have to admire Bud McFarlane. He is a thinker, a gifted writer, and a doer! When he became aware of an Op Ed piece in the Los Angeles Times that did not seem to ring trae. Bud quickly took pen in hand and crafted a brilliant rebuttal. The piece Bud took issue with had a main thesis that one candidate's team of advisors was far superior to McCain's. As Bud said, "I don't know what got into the author, but it deserved a rebuttal." Bud, who reminded readers that... ...As one who spent 20 years in the military and nine years on the White House National Security Councilâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a period which included two nuclear confrontations with the Soviet Unionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;I can only say that success in crisis resolution, let alone forging day to day policy, requires a depth of knowledge that can only be absorbed through years of study, a comprehensive knowledge of history, and a thorough understanding of the role and use of force in support of diplomacy. It also helps, but is not essential, to have served in combat.

I surely hope that we see our ' 5 9 e r Bud McFarlane well-placed in our govemment once again, so that credibility is once again restored to our foreign policy and defense strategy. Keep up the great work. Bud! Evidently a last minute bout with pneumonia forced Rick Johnson to ask that the 1959 annual Dark Ages/Valentines' Day party be postponed till some later time in the Spring. Hope by now Rick is fully back on his feet, and probably by the time you read this, '59ers will have again celebrated a special time.

It was a special time for me at the most recent limcheon meeting of our Palm Beach Chapter Jack Shirreffs made arrangements for the meeting to be held at the beautiful Ballen Isles Country Club; the ambience, food, everything super! Joining us was Carl Keske (and a good friend 'n golfing buddy) whom I had seen very little of since our 1/ C Craise (delayed/interrapted/confused.. .so many Firsties were aboard F. SHERMAN that we took on duties working in the galley, ship's laundry, and first lieutenant force to keep busy and to help out).

Only Priscilla of the '59er wives was able to attend. Usually the great spirit, the number of attendees from '54 overwhelms us, but we were close to keeping pace with them this time. I had organized a panel to discuss "Ethics and our Naval Academy." I served as the moderator, while the real key people, the panelists, included Jack, Maj Gen Dick Boverie '54, USAF (Ret), and an honorary member of the Class of ' 3 3 , CAPT Bob Bedingfield, USN CHC (Ret). Bob was one of the leaders in race relations/human resources programs for the entire Navy in the '70s. It was my pleasure to know him, later serve with him at the Naval

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Academy, and to remain friends down thru the years. Having served many tours with the Marine Corps, he made his "retirement" location near Camp Lejeune, NC (which was to start after successfully pasturing and leading Presbyterian churches in Westchester County in New York state, and later Grand Rapids, MI), but Bob was called to serve the retirement community of Mariner Sands (near Stuart, FL,) for six months of the year If you ever want to hear a fantastic preacher and be part of an inspiring congregation, visit the Chapel. If you remember, Larry Weaver had that experience with his new bride (which reminds me that Larry has not taken time to give us a posthoneymoon report) and loved meeting Chaplain Bob Bedingfield. But now back to the panel, and it was a lively discussion which covered topics like teamwork, esprit, integration of women into the military, concern for "double standards" and the lasting meaning and importance of the Naval Academy experience. We did not arrive at any definite conclusions, but we certainly left the door open to tackle the subject again at a future meeting. Jack did a fantastic job conveying the importance of a team, a small unit, tradition, and commitment to shared values. Dick Boverie and Bob Bedingfield were superb as well. Oh, evidently we just missed having another '59er at the gathering. Joe Mitchell had just recently stopped by Keske's in Palm City, FL. They enjoyed some golf and dinner together.

Great to see '59er camaraderie!

the importance of physical education in school curricula) has introduced a bill called PEP (S. 1159, with a companion bill in the House) or Physical Education for Progress Act. If you can weigh in on this one, it would be greatly appreciated! Our youth need to receive quality physical education from certified teachers. Good healthy habits demand such teaching and reinforcement. As my former boss, Arnold Schwarzeneggar, used to say, "What good is a sound mind in an unhealthy body?" The proposed act calls for $400 million over five years which will authorize incentive grants to local school districts to expand and enhance physical education offerings. It may not be the entire answer (there is always the key role of family support and involvement) but it is a very positive step. Thanks for your interest and help!

I shall save some reminiscences about Vietnam, small world-type happenings, and a "plug" for a book about my old squadron VAL-4 (written by a squadronmate and to be published by the Naval Institute) for next time. Until then, Rise 'n Shine, and don't let darkness dim or damper your spirit!

John Butterfield

And that takes me to an email that was shared with me by Pat Schnauffer. Bob Manly of the 18th Company had sent this to Joni and Pat: Caroline and Walt Szczypinski and Patty and Harry Brock visited us recently. We played a round of golf and had dinner. We also took them to the Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, FL. Patty and Harry are staying on the west coast (of Florida) and have invited us to play golf and have dinner this coming Tuesday (29 February). Too bad we can't play golf worth a hoot, but we will have fun anyway! Let us know when Joni and you plan your next visit to Florida. We currently plan to be traveling in our motorhome during June-September. Hope all is well with you all.

Sounds like the golfers in the Class should plan a big golf event down in Florida some place. Perhaps I should suggest to Rich Madden, Jack Shirreffs, et al, that they look at some time close to the Notre Dame-Navy football game, to be played in Orlando on 14 October 2000.

Priscilla and I are looking forward to a big event in May; we are invited back to Corpus Christi, TX, for the Beach-to-Bay Relay Marathon, 20 May 2000. I founded the event 25 years ago when I thought it would be grand to organize a different athletic event during the Bicentennial Year 1976, as part of Armed Forces Day celebrations. The idea caught on and today it is the largest amateur sporting event in South Texas. Over 6,000 ranners and scads of officials, volunteers, and spectators will be there. I know I have written about B-to-B before and have described it as an adult spring break, although the over 1,000 teams (six members on a team; each rans approximately 4.4 miles) include all ages. Priscilla and I will ran on a team that includes old friends and fellow "plankowners" who participated in the original event. We will surely run slower than we did for the first one, but we shall do it with great enthusiasm and much joy!

You know how much I believe in the importance of physical fitness and physical education. Many of you are aware that physical education is not required in many schools across the country, or it receives very low priority, limited funding, and often times a professional physical education teacher is not involved. Senator Stevens of Alaska (with strong backing from many legislators on both sides of the aisle, and from organizations who know

Pres: Dr. Richard R. Pariseau Sec'y: Bill Lewis 14312 Cove Ridge PI., Midlothian, VA 23112-43 3 7 h: 804-744-8808 e: bilewis@home.com Class Web site: http://navysfo.org/supersixty.html

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I appreciate the input over the Internet. It really helps speed up the transmission of information. The Web site is also an important place to log on and get up to date information and pass on the same.

That address is: http://navysfo.org/supersixty.html.

1 received the following from Bob Allison: Barbara Eason called and told Evelyn that Dave passed away early this moming. He had been in a hospital for about two weeks. As you know, he has had cancer for an extended time and had been taking treatments. 1 understand heart failure was the final problem. The funeral will be Tuesday, 1 don't have details yet, but am trying to call Barbara to find out. Do you have emails for the guys by Company? If so can you let those from 1 st Company or even 1 st Battalion know about Dave? Barbara told Evelyn that she and Stephanie may attend the 40th. Thanks.

And shortly thereafter from Dave Eason's, widow, Barbara: Thank you for your words of comfort. I will try to get something to you in the next couple of weeks for Shipmate. 1 am so grateful for all of the help everyone gave me in completing the medal shadowbox for Dave. I gave it to him for Christmas and he was so proud of it. I have pictures that 1 need to develop of him with it.. .1 will send you prints.

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He was a fighter until the very end always being optimistic in fighting this cancer No matter what news the doctors gave him, he always looked at what time the nexttteatmentwould give him, no matter the pain and suffering he went through. Even though we lived here in Detroit away from the "Navy family and community," we had a special place in our heart for the "good life." While Dave was still on active duty and we lived in Norfolk, everyone was like family and made me feel a part of that special bond, knowing this was all new to me.

He was looking forward to the Class Reunion this year. My daughter, Stephanie, and 1 decided that we will be attending the Class Reunion at the end of September for him. He will be there in spirit and in our hearts. 1 talked to Bob Allison last night to let him know that we would be attending and where we will be staying.

We will keep in touch, and please continue sending me information on the Class and activities. Thank you for all your help and support. My daughter and I appreciate it. Warm Regards, Barbara and Stephanie Eason To keep you up to date on the forthcoming Homecoming and 40th Reunion activities, I've included information from Hank Chiles, John Claman and Ed Clexton regarding the nominating committee results and a statement from the nominee for Class President, Ed Clexton. Hank and John worked hard at this and their results should keep the Class on track well into the next century.

From John Claman via email: Hank (Chiles) and Dick (Pariseau), I've contacted all six candidates for president and five of the six (Jim Knorr, Bob Gamba, John Micbaelski, John Leahy, Dick Macke) have deferted to the candidacy of Ed Clexton. Ed has sent in a draft platform (attached) which he indicated he'd tighten up as we got close. I think Ed hits the mark in his thinking. So that leaves us with a solid slate as follows: President: Ed Clexton Vice President: Hank Papa Secretary: Bill Lewis (shipping over) Treasurer: Bob Steele Decedent Affairs: Al Holden I think the pot's right and recommend we send out a Shipmate article to hit the presses in Spring and again in August. I've copied the slate members for confirmation of their candidacy. 1 hope all's well going into the new millennium.

From Ed Clexton via email: Hank (Chiles) and John (Claman), having discussed your request with Catherine and with Don, you may "use me as you wish" in anticipation of Class elections next year Just so you know, we are moving back to Virginia Beach at the end of this year, so 1 won't be that close to Annapolis/ USNA, but I would like to contribute to deeper bonding by Classmates, especially in the electronic age.

A proposal for Super '60 In response to your request for a "platform," maybe I'd call it a mission I think 1 can do it rather succinctly: My (almost) sole interest, if 1 am selected to serve as Class President, is to take advantage of (1) the stage of life we are all in/entering (retirement), with the associated need to "find things to do to keep busy," and (2) today's technology that allows so many to interact with so many others on a real time basis. Meaning, I would devote (almost) all of my energies to getting Classmates together again—en masse, by company, and by natural associations, e.g., sports teams, activities, "warfare" specialties, present locations, etc. I would do this by getting the assistance of those already connected electronically to spread their "fields of influence" and coverage, enlisting as many as they can find to also help, reaching out, calling, searching phone books and the Intemet for "lost" members, even if they are not really lost, but merely out of touch—have every Classmate find another Classmate...and then another sort of thing. I would do this to not

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only rekindle friendships and common bonds of the past, but to allow us to meet others we never quite knew 40 years ago. 1 see the time as ripe for such an effort. With all the busyness of our lives, careers, families, etc., since graduation, 1 don't think most have really had much opportunity to do this, so the timing is perfect. It is also a time in our lives when we could very well need each other in the future, as we did Plebe Year, but now it will be for comfort and support. 1 remember a notefromDick Pariseau telling us how some other Classes have combined forces locally to be able to do just this with Classmates who are in need of comfort or companionship when they are ill. 1 can think of no higher calling than for us to (re)build such relationships at this time.

1 guess this wasn't so succinct after all, but I should close with an explanation of why I said "almost" twice in the first paragraph. Whereas I have explained what my main thmst would be as Class President, I would certainly also assume a leadership role in making sure we increased opportunities and communications to get together to enjoy camaraderie and fun at all the usual functions, e.g., reunions, ball games, other local and regional events, etc. While reaching out to all, I would also look for those Classmates in various areas to help form and coordinate times and places for Classmates in those areas to get together—further strengthening the local and virtual networks to support my number one objective.

Thanks for this opportunity to serve all. 1 would embrace it with zest if selected. Ed Clexton, 1000 Bobolink Drive, Virginia Beach, VA 23451; 757491-2141 clexboeck(@aol.com.

More on the 40th. Contact points for each company are listed below.

1st—Dick Pariseau; 2nd—Tom Solak; 3rd— Dwayne Tollakso; 4th—Bill Ballard; 5th—Bill Lewis; 6th—John Michalski; 7th—Skip Weeks; 8th—BobTowle ; 9th—Norm Slezak; 11th—John Paepcke; 12th—R. Keith Young; 13th—Lamont Phemister; 14th—Bob Antonio; 15th—Don Boecker; 16th—Jim Hancock; 17th—BobOsmon; 18th—Mai Murray; 20th—Mike Merrill; 21st— Ron Koontz; 22nd—Donald E. Broadfield; 23rd— KenLoveland; 24th—Mike Willsey 10th and 19th companies are being covered by others until that coverage is firmed up.

From Lamont Phemister via email: Hi Bill, 1 need to put you on my list of folks to notify when something changes. Yes, I changed Intemet service providers, so uss.card(ggte.net is my new email.

When CARD was mined in the Port of Saigon in 1963,1 was duty officer at Headquarters Support Activity, Saigon. I drove down to the pier when CARD was moored and met the crew coming down the brow with their hanging gear on their shoulder An engineer officer with a propeller at the head said no one was in charge, so I told him I was. I actually said, "About Face." To my surprise, and gratification this group of five to six merchant seamen did it. (CARD, an ex-CVE had long been decommissioned and was now USNS CARD.) They led me down a ladder from the hangar deck to an open hatch where 1 could see Niagara Falls in an engine room. There I invented a new "famous inspired naval saying." I said, "Shut That Hatch."

Now, about the email. I used CARD because I figured that since it was being abandoned when I came along, the ship belonged to me. A few days later when a salvage vessel arrived from the Philippines, 1 graciously consented for USN to tow CARD off to make razor blades. Lamont!

I heard from Charley Simmons responding to a missive from Bob Osmon: Oz. 1 particularly enjoyed the one about John Glenn.. .that's exactly what happened to our family.

Then: Watching John Glenn's historic flight with your parents.

Now: Watching John Glenn's historic flight with your children.

By the way, how's the weather back there...I see you're getting quite a bit of snow. It's sunny

and 48 degrees here in Puget Sound Country. La Niria has been pretty decent so far this winter

Bob Baker wrote: 1 have come to the end of another contract and leave here Friday, 11 February so 1 will be out of touch for a while. The email address will not be checked after the 11th and I will not be available at PGI by phone. This is a broadcast message to all: so to those of you in Little Rock, it has been a good, almost a year and if I am ever in the area again 1 will try to look you up. To those who are personal contacts 1 will get back in touch when I have a new email address. I will be available by phone in Arizona after the 14th.

From John Ruhsenberger via email: This is an update of my address. Debbie and I have settled in central Florida. The address is now 1315 Pinto Lane, Lady Lake, FL 32159; 352-2594545. This should be the last change for many years, if all goes well. I'll also send in a summary of the last two years when I get back online. We're looking forward to seeing everyone at the 40th. Right now, we're still unpacking boxes. All is well.

And from the wilds of Montana: I thank all you guys that are devoting so much time to help keep our Class and friends together I know it takes a lot of your valuable time and energy. I'll see you at the Reunion this fall. Phil Rognlien I also heard from Mike Midas (www. leadercertification.com) down in Georgia: Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. I've been occupied with an illness in the family, the last month or so. Where do you live? I'm here in Newnan, Georgia. 30 minutes south of the airport. Look forward to hearing from you. Let's make it a great day!

I also heard from Hank Chiles with some sad news: For all, regret to pass along that Chris Whalen (age 30), youngest son of Mary Jane and John Whalen, passed away from a heart attack while en route to work on Sunday, 13 February. John and Mary Jane live at 4706 Yarrow Court, Williamsburg, VA. 23188; JFWUSNA60(gaol.com.

Chris was a super young man; He'll be missed.

Warm regards.

In planning for the 40th, I've been hearing form various people and recently heard from Bill Kee and George Mahelona. Ted Parsons also sent along some pictures of the mini-reunion in Tahoe last fall and those are included.

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Pres: RADM Jerry Smith, USN (Ret.) Corr. Sec'y: CAPT Roger Onorati, USN (Ret.) 1756 Point-No-Point Drive, Annapolis, MD 21401 h: 410-849-3812; w: 301-261-8862 f: 301-261-8669; e: rtrogero@ea.net http://www.jorge.com/USNA61 Howdy, sports fans! Here it is, the month of the first USNA graduation of the 21st cenhiry. Does

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that make you feel any older? If you do your math correctly, you'll also realize that in this seminal year, a significant number of the great Class of'61 who entered the Naval Academy directly from high school will celebrate their 61st birthday. I'm not sure what relevance this has to anything, but I had to open this column with something.. .so there it is.

Cyberspace Nooze Here's the second half of our 17th Company Rep, Jesse Stewart's timely report on the happenings of his Companymates.

Bill Martin: Upon graduation I was on MACDONOUGH from 1961-1963. After Destroyer School, 1 was weapons on POWER, with cruises to the Mediterranean, Persian Gulf, Red Sea, North Atlantic and the like from 1963-1965.1 was then assigned to the Naval Postgraduate School and earned a B.S. in operations research from 1965-1967. My next tour was with Commander Anti-Submarine Warfare Forces Atlantic as an Operations Research Specialist from 1967-1969. 1 was promoted to LCDR in 1969. My next tour was in Viemam, where 1 was briefly, chief staff officer for Coastal Squadron One (Patrol Craft Squadron), then director of tactical operations for a naval force for about two months operating south of Danang. For this, 1 received a Navy Commendation Medal with combat "V" and the Combat Action Ribbon. I was next assigned as a tactical commander for patrol operations off the south coast of Vietnam, and after a month or so there became Commander of Coastal Division Eleven from January 1970 to October 1970. For this, 1 was awarded my first Bronze Star with Combat "V" and the Vietnamese Honor Medal. Upon return to the States, 1 was assigned as executive officer of SEMMES from 1971-1972. During this tour, 1 was awarded the Navy Achievement Medal. Next, I went to command of BLANDY, taking command in November 1972 in Subic Bay, RP. During the first six months of command, BLANDY was employed in a gunfire support role off the coast of northem South Viemam. For service in BLANDY, a second Bronze Star with Combat "V" was awarded. 1 was promoted to CDR in 1974.1 was then assigned to the Naval Academy as a Battalion Officer from 1974-1977. A year at the Naval War College followed this tour, and shortly thereafter, 1 was assigned as plans officer for Carrier Division Six from 1978-1979. After a brief stint at Naval Station Mayport from December 1979 to August 1980,1 was promoted to CAPT in 1980 and assigned to the office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington, serving from 1980 to 1983.

For service as the senior analyst in the office of Exercise, Plans and Analysis for the Director of Operations, I was awarded the Defense Superior Service Medal. I retired in 1983. Upon retirement, I moved to Orange Beach, AL, opened a computer service business in 1984 and became active in local politics. I was elected to the second city council in 1988. In 1991,1 left Orange Beach to obtain a master's degree in library service from the University of Alabama. 1 next served as the director of the library in Neshoba County, MS, located in my hometown of Philadelphia, MS, from 1992- 1994. While there, 1 helped found the local Habitat for Humanity Affiliate, and served as president of the board of directors from 1993-1994. I retumed to Orange Beach in September 1994. Since that time 1 have been a volunteer, board member and in January of 1995 became president of the board of directors of Habitat for Humanity of Baldwin County, serving for one year in that capacity. 1 am still active in the local affiliate. 1 am currently employed by the law firm of Hand Arendall, as the litigation information systems administrator 1 am a member of St. Andrew By-The-Sea Community Church and my wife, Suzan, and 1 are both involved in its activities. Suzan and 1 celebrated our 38th wedding anniversary in April of 1999, have two children, Scott and Melanie, and two grandchildren, Jessica and Clara.

Ken Morgan: 1961 -1968 U.S. Navy, VS-31, VS-30, Quonset Pt., then Key West. 1968-1991 Eastern Air Lines pilot, Miami. 1991-present Challenge Air Cargo, Miami, pilot, now Director of Training. Three children, all grown, all living in the D.C. area (two in Annapolis) five grandchildren.

Jerry North: After leaving the Nuclear Submarine Navy, I worked as project engineer for General Electric Nuclear Energy Division in San Jose for five years. 1 received an M.B.A. from the University of Santa Clara. Then, I received a law degree from Stanford. I've been practicing law with the Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt law firm in Portland, OR, for the last 25 years. This is a large, general practice law firm with more than 100 lawyers, with offices in Portland, OR; Seattle and Vancouver, WA, and representation in Washington, D.C. 1 specialize in product liability lifigation. I've been married to Ann for 36 years. We have a son living in Portland, and a daughter living in Seattle. We are grandparent "wanna-bes."

Tom Pollak: Served about three years aboard WITEK out of New London, CT, in engineering—ultimately as chief engineer Transferred to Assuance out of Panama City, FL, as executive officer Was there about a year and a half Went to Counter Insurgency School in San Diego and then on to Vietnam for a year as an advisor to a junk division.

After that tour, spent two years as an ROTC instmctor at Princeton. Got out in November of 1968. Have been married to my wife, Pat, for more than 31 years. We have one son who is 25 and presently living in Evansville, IN. I went to work for ALCOA after leaving the service.

Worked for them for almost 30 years. Took an early out package in 1997 and retired to Marco Island, FL. My address is 116 Shorecrest Court, Marco Island, FL 34145; 941-642-6896. Anyone in the area is welcome to visit. It's our little slice of paradise.

Jay Savage: After school, 1 got the pork chop indoctrination at Athens, GA. After 20 years in the Supply Corps, wound up at Vitro Corp in Maryland.

Mostly supporting FBM program. Started a side business in horses (buying, selling, boarding, breaking, ttaining, feeding, shoveling HS, etc.)

After about ten years of that, the body said it was a good thing 1 didn't give up my day job. Pretty much satisfied my curiosity 'bout horses. Vitro became Tracor, then Marconi and now BAE SYSTEMS (new name for British Aerospace). Job pretty much stayed the same until about two years ago. Shifted to mnning logistics for the Consolidated Space Operations Contract as a subcontractor to Lockheed Martin supporting the unmanned space programs NASA. Same stuff. Parts is parts.

Have a loving wife, Susan (third time is a charm for me, evidently), three great kids off on their own and doing well, and, best of all, five grandkids in need of spoiling every chance we get.

Bob Shaw: After graduation, 1 served on three destroyers, SELLERS, CROMWELL and WILTSIE. Then 1 trans-

ferted to the Supply Corps in 1967, and served as supply officer of ALGOL. I then volunteered for SeaBee duty and was assigned to Naval Mobile Constraction Battalion 133 in Gia Le, Vietnam. Next stop was Naval Supply Systems Command HQ in Washington. During this tour, I married Maxine Wellborn of Atlanta, GA, in 1972.

(Maxine died in 1981 after a four year battle with cancer). Next in 1974, I went to PG School at Duke University where 1 earned my M.B.A. Next stop was Logistics Officer, Naval Mobile Construction Battalions, Pacific in Pearl Harbor, where two of my sons were bom. My next and final assignment was the Naval Oceanographic Office in Bay St. Louis, MS. 1 retired in August of 1981, and moved to Tuscaloosa, AL, where I earned my law degree at The University of Alabama School of Law. As a single parent with three young sons, it was a challenge, but 1 made it.

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a trust officer In 1986,1 married Libby Kirksey, a corporate attorney with Gulf States Paper Corporation. 1 have served as president of the Chamber of Commerce, the University Club and The University of Alabama National Alumni Association. I plan to retire from banking in August and hope to practice law here in Tuscaloosa. I am a life member of the Naval Academy Alumni Association and have served as a Blue & Gold Officer for six years in two different states. Go Navy\ Jesse Stewart (Riverfarm@compuserve.com; 703-619-9663): My first flying assignment was to VF-111 at Miramarflyingthe F-8 Crusader Onboard KITTY HAWK, 1 was infroduced to Laos and Vietnam in August 1964, followed by a combat craise to Viemam in 1965 onboard MIDWAY. In 1966,1 went to Test Pilot School at Patuxent River 1 joined American Airlines in 1969 and a year later, after a layoff, came back into the Navy working on getting the S3A ready for its first flight and its subsequent flight test program. After the class desk tour in NavAir, I flew F-4s off FORRESTAL followed by an OPTEVFOR tour working on airto-air missiles. As a junior commander, 1 went to Monterey for a master's in finance. Then I came back to the Washington area and am still here, 21 years later Sue and I live near Mount Vernon.

Tours in Washington included class desk for the Sidewinder missile, a Navy Requirements Officer tour in the Pentagon and attendance at ICAF. I was program manager for my last five or so years for the Sidewinder, Sparrow, Advanced Air-toAir Missile, and Phoenix missiles. After retirement in 1991,1 went to work at the Defense Sys- . tems Management College at Fort Belvoir teaching new DoD and industry program managers. I am a member of Trinity United Methodist Church in Alexandria, serving as the Trustees tteasurer My wife, Sue, and I have been married 35 years.

We have one son, Tom. Rick Sylvester: President, Sylvester & Cockram, Inc. This is a mechanical confractor and have been in business for 12 years in Winston-Salem. Children: Richard D. Sylvester III (account director for GSD&M Advertising in Austin TX, 29, single, but has a steady). Our daughter is Debian Sylvester (consultant and sales for IBM in Raleigh, NC, 27, single). Wife is Marie (critical care nurse at North Carolina Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem). Hobbies include: golf, bridge, rose gardening, reading. Latestfravel:Great weekend at USNA for the Navy-Air Force game (we have not traveled much because Marie was in Nursing School at UNC for four years). We are going on the Alaska Cruise in June '00. See you there!

Steve Werlock: I went directly into Navy Air. After getting my wings, I was stationed on the east coast at Cecil Field with an A-4 squadron, where I made two MED cruises off SARATOGA. In 1965,1 fransferred to a west coast squadron and had one Vietnam tour on CONSTELLATION in VA-153—113 combat missions. I returned from the Tonkin Gulf and went to shore duty at NAF China Lake, CA, with VX-5 from 1967-1970. A nice tour, but a litfle remote! I left the Navy in 1970 and moved to Alameda in the Bay Area. 1 stayed in the Reserves there until I retired in 1986. In civilian life, I worked first in real estate (sales and property management) and then later in life insurance. In 1990, 1 relocated to Gig Harbor, WA, just outside Tacoma. I still reside there today and have a nice job with the U.S. Post Office. I enjoy the work and won't retire for at least five more years.

Now here's some other nooze that made it into my email box this past month. The first is a retransmission from Bob Hoag that should have accompanied a photo from China in the January '00 column, but which I cleverly managed to accidentally dump in the trash: Here's an update on my activities over the past couple of years. I'm still working part time as the West Coast representative for Penn State's Applied Research Lab in the Manufacturing Technology Division. My duties are varied, but 92

in general whatever the boss wants me to do— part project management, part marketing, and part field engineering. My plan is to finally hang it up in about six months, since I'm really too busy with other activities to work, but of course plans do change. We've been in the house we built for almost three years, but with any custom house, there's always "things" to complete. We're at about 400 feet elevation, with a 180 degree view of the Olympic Mountains, and Hood Canal to the West. We never get tired of the view, and I get to watch the various ships using the underwater range in Dabob Bay operated by my old Command at Keyport. Caroline and I do quite a bit of traveling either in our camper, or overseas.

That, combined with my job, keep me on the road a lot. Last year, we were in France and Germany combined with our annual visit to Caroline's mom in Holland. This year, in June, it was Holland again, plus a PG School sponsored Alumni College trip to the Tuscany region of Italy in June.

Tums out that Kathy and Bill Straight were in the same tour group, so we had a great time going after an old friend of mine, John Ekstrom '59. The tour was absolutely great, very informative, and nice to spend the whole eight days in one place and not have to continually pack to move somewhere else. Some day we hope to go back to Tuscany and spend some more time on our own. After our week in Tuscany, we spent a week on our own in Rome. Talk about a conttast—from the quiet countryside, to noisy Rome.

We stayed for a week in a small family run hotel, and walked our feet to bloody stumps all over the city. Just one comment and that is if you go to the Vatican to see St. Peters, go at 7:30 a.m. on Saturday. It was essentially empty, and wonderful to see. We felt like we had the place to ourselves. We were so impressed with the Alumni College, that in May 2000 we're taking the USNA sponsored tour by the same company to the Provence Region of France. In November, we retumed from a 19-day tour of China, including four days on the Yangtze River, and three days in Hong Kong.

To digress a bit, Caroline and I have been getting so sick of the '"58 is Greaf' flags you see in every '58 column, that we were determined to make a '61 flag. So here you see us with our flag on the Great Wall, and at a 12-story Pagoda built in the 12th century in the small village of Shibozhai on the Yangtze River. Of course in China we hit all the tourist hot spots like the Great Wall, Forbidden City, Terra Cotta Warriors, Shanghai etc., but for me, the real highlight was the craise on the Yangtze. We went past the constraction site for the new three Gorges Dam, and then another 650 kilometers up river to Chongqing which was Chang Kai Shek and Stillwell's and the Flying Tigers' headquarters during WWII. The vital transportation link of the river, and the ultimate impact of the massive lake that will be created behind the Dam are really impressive. Flooding starts in 2003. We were on a 5,000-ton ship, and it was quite interesting to observe the maneuvering to deal with the current, and changing river conditions. I could go on, but enough to say that I'd do it all over again, it was great, and our new flag saw a lot of places with more to come. (Sec 'y note: see photo of flag in January '00 Class column) Might canvas the Class to see if they like this design or another one. We sort of like this one, as '58 may be Great, but '61 is already the WGNAC, and we're havin' FUN. By the way, the edge binding on the flag is in red in deference to our Marine Corps Classmates. Locally, I see Walt Draper, and Fred Triggs quite a bit, but that's about it.

Ed Straw sent a short relocation announcement about the same time Curt Holcomb sent an email directing me to an article in the Wall Street Journal announcing Ed's move from Houston to New York. Briefly, "Estee Lauder Cos. is hiring Edward M. Straw, a top Compaq Computer Corp. executive, as president of operations at a time when the cosmetics company's operations have become more complex because of myriad distribution outlets."

Chuck St. Laurent: The old retired Saint was recently hired as a Field Enumerator (Don't know what it means?

Look it up.) for the U.S. Govemment Census Bureau. Since I have been inactive in the job market for awhile, but highly active on the social and fiin scene, I though it might be time to work some part-time gig. Soooo, I went and applied to the Census Bureau, took a test (Which was harder than I thought it would be ), and 1 have been hired. I start four days of training next week and then I am off to do—?—not sure exactly, but guess 1 will find out. When they called me to ask me if I wanted the part-time job, I really looked for a way to say no, but since I had volunteered, I thought I should give it a try. I will keep you posted. Ciao.

Don Grinnell: Our first luncheon of the New Year and millennium tumed out to be the most successful. The number attending set a new record of seventeen, as we closed out year number three for our San Diego Chapter. Helping to establish the new record attendance were: Jack Allen, Tom Bailey, Joe Berkeley, Dave Brummersted, Gary Carlson, Don Grinnell, Mike Hoememann, Bill Kraus, Steve Mayian, Mark Moore, Ed Oleata, Jack Robinson, Dick Rothwell, Bob Sheridan, Leo Willetts, George Worthington and our USMA '61 Classmate, Alan Armstrong. There was lots of Class and area business to discuss and BUI Kraus, OurAlumni Association Class Rep., passed along all the news from national and the Class hierarchy. The Dark Ages party being hosted by Betty and Tom Bailey was the primary topic of interest. It was followed closely with jokes and sea stories. Steve Mayian, our usual leader in the exciting story and joke detail finally admitted, "That's all Folks!" He was out of jokes for the day. Most of us never saw that coming. He will be back as our Leader of Humor, we are sure. A 43-year tradition and record does not leave abruptly. As most of us know, especially as we get a few years on, just being with the trasted friends of our youth and the camaraderie of the years and careers we have shared is what we all leave the luncheon with. Thank you. Classmates.

Seen and Heard around Town 'Twas a quiet month in the Aimapolis-D.C. area.

Most folks were still shell shocked from the great Blizzard of '00, so not much reportable business or social action.

Arlie Campbell sends some info on the USNA Pipe & Drum Corps, sponsored by the great Class of' 61. You can read more about it by going to their home page: http://www.usna.edu/Pipes/main.html on the Web. Upcoming Class Events 17-24 June '00: Class Cruise to Alaska. Contact: Don E v a n s . Here is a m e s s a g e from COMALASKA. Don Evans: Craise sign up is going well with close to 40 couples already signed up. If you are thinking about or have decided to join us please contact Cindy Myers of Craise Holidays at 1-800 942-0440 or local Virginia at 703893-0999; booknsail@aol.com.

Major Events Scheduled for Year 2001 6-9 September ' 0 1 : 40th Class Reunion. Contact: Jay Bower Major Events for Year 2002 Summer '02: Class Med Cruise. Dates TBD 40th Reunion Update COM40THREUNION Jay Bower says the first mailing on the 40th Reunion was definitely to go out in March. This is not junk mail, so don't throw it away.

Also don't forget to check out our Class Web page at least once a month. We are going to update this during 2000. In case you have forgotten, the address is: wwwjorge.coni/usna61. If you want to go into the database to look up a Classmate, you'll be asked to log in. Enter "wgnac" in the first block, "plebe" the second.

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Pres: CAPT Richard J. Hayes, USN (Ret.) h: 703-461-3582: e: USNA62@erols.com Sec'y: CDR Howard S. Pinskey, USNR (Ret.) RO. Box 3380, Annapolis, MD 21403-3326 h: 410-974-1962; e; PINSK62@aol.com Class Web site: www.usna62.com Greetings from Annapolis Less than a month and the Class of 2000 graduates. The town and Academy are awash with tourists and visitors. The national political conventions are three months in the future and then the electioneering begins again in earnest. Enjoy the month of May. Here's our Class news.

Class News Received this note from Larry Hart: Greetings from the far west! Hard to believe a guy can wait so long before "phoning home," like 38 years! Roianne and I retired to Pebble Beach in late '98 and feel we have died and gone to heaven (despite contrary forecasts). After leaving the Navy in '67, 1 worked at two big-board companies: Flour Corp., where I became group executive, and International Technology corporations as CEO. Now we play lots of golf and 1 help out the Monterey Symphony as a board member while Roi peddles her paintings at a local gallery. Our son, Reece, is a scientist for IBM at the Watson Research Center and lives in Manhattan. Our daughter, Brooke, does national news for NBC and lives in McLean, VA, With her new husband (Jonathan Salkoff '90).

The precursor of this update was a fan reunion of '62ers in the form of Corbin McNeill, Tom IMercer, Mike Raggett and Larry Hart, along with Ted Ardell '61, and our spouses on February 13. Riarme and I hosted the group for drinks and snacks, then we headed out for diimer at Clint Eastwood's finest to pork out and tell lies.

I started this with a BZ to Corbin for the Go Navy, Beat Army lights on PECO'S building (it helps if you're the CEO) that made the cover of Shipmate. Corbin emailed back that he and Dorice would be in Monterey for his speech to the GE Nuclear symposium in Febraary and suggested we get together for dinner QED. Corbin won't retire until 2002, due to the merger of PECO and the old Commonwealth Edison (Illinois). Tom is retired, but involved in lots of volunteer work. Navy and otherwise. Mike got his teaching credential after Navy retirement, and teaches math and coaches girl's frack at a private girls school. Ted is semi-retired, but spends lots of time on some very successful venture capital projects. He and Susan have headed up the AT&T Golf competitor hospitality committee for over a decade. They and Rianne and I will work the U.S. Open in June as volunteers.

All of us are local to the Monterey Peninsula except Corbin.

The McNeills are the first non-local '62ers to visit us since we arrived. Dick Treanor, Walt Martin and Steve Denson have all made vague promises, but have yet to find the way out west.

Seriously, we'd love to see any of you who are in the area. Advance notice is not required, unless you don't do either Bass ale or Glenmorangie single malt.

Congratulations to Larry and Roi for choosing a great retirement area.

Dan Curran writes us that he and Paul Callahan spent the first week in Febraary together in Honolulu as part of a government panel. The panel reviewed various projects under the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) funded National Defense Center of Excellence for Research in Ocean Sciences, headquartered in Hawaii. Paul is a research engineer at Penn State's

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Applied Research Laboratory and acts as technology assistant to the Chief Technology Officer Center at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. When asked if their wives were along for the trip, Paul and Dan both changed the subject. Later, Dan was heard to mumble something about "worrying about pipes freezing" and someone thought he heard Paul murmur "no one to shovel snow." Both however, unequivocally stated that "it was a tough job but someone had to do it."

Navy-Army 2000 Stew Lingley has been hard at work artanging for the Class to enjoy Navy's victory game in Baltimore and then a '62 victory party afterwards. The current plan is to gather the Class for the Army Navy football game on 2 December 2000. We will be ranning buses to the game in Baltimore from a hotel in Beltsville, MD, (D.C. beltway) and celebrate the win with a party at the hotel after the game. The hotel is the Sheraton College Park, near the intersection of 1-95 and Route 212. Everyone who wants a room needs to call them for a reservation. They have set aside a block of rooms for us, and have given us a ran-of-the-house rate of $79 (plus 10% tax). Call the hotel direct at 301937-4422. (Their nationwide Sheraton number does not have access to the blocked rooms.) You need to mention Navy '62 as the group name to get the rate. (An alternative is to indicate reservation code MGA.) The rate is good from Thursday to Monday. As of this writing, I have 99 Classmates I expect to participate, including 49 from out of town. I have an indication that 104 Classmates are planning to participate. 45 of 71 NAAA members have indicated that they will attend. That means 59 Classmates who plan to attend are nonmembers of the NAAA. I only have 16 of these 59 on my first come, first served list, (FCFS) based on receipt of their checks. So far, there is still an excess of tickets (18-plus) m the priority Class seating area, (PCSA) based on the generosity of our NAAA members. At the moment, there are only 20 NAAA members who have not responded to my request for excess tickets. If all these folks contribute all four of their tickets, that will bring our supply to just under 100. My calculation is that our curtent projected net need is 94 tickets. So, in the best of worlds, this ticket thing might just workout. However, I highly recommend all non-members of NAAA send me a check and get on the FCFS list. Sooner is definitely better If I can't get enough tickets in the PCSA, some folks may end up in a '62 block in the end zone, or wherever I can get the seats. I will keep everyone advised, but don't plan on getting into the PCSA at the last minute. I expect the stadium to sell out when they open up purchases to the general public in mid July.

So, if I need a block of seats outside the PCSA, I will order it in early July, before they go public.

Apparently, Not everyone was told the costs. So here we go again: Game tickets are $36 each.

NAAA ticket office processing fee is $4 per order The bus is $10 per person.

The party is $30 per person.

Decide what you want (max four), do the math and send me a check. G.S. Lingley, 8320 Old Dominion Drive, McLean, VA 22102.

NAAA members, please order four tickets and decide how many you plan to use. Then as soon as possible, tell me how many I can put in the pot.

NAAA members using all their tickets, please send me a check for the bus and the party, as desired.

NAAA members ordering tickets for the pot, tell me how many bus riders and party goers to plan on, but don't send me any money. We will settle up later I would like to fry to satisfy four Classmates who want more than four tickets, before sum-

mer So, let's set a date of 1 June to get on the FCFS list, before I attempt to fill the orders for more than four tickets.

Slim pickens this month in the Class news and photo departments. Summer travel and meeting time is just around the corner A great opportunity to keep in touch with your '62 lifetime friends.

Please send in your cards, letters and pictures, we'll put them to good use.

Keep in touch...Until next time.

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Pres: Hon. Stephen M. Duncan Sec'y: Michael H. Shelley 25 Sweetwater Lane, Pisgah Forest, NC 28768 h: 828-862-4245; e: nstar@citcom.net Web site: www.USNA63.org I'm glad to be able to present such a full and interesting collection of news about our Classmates and their families this month. What you are about to read in our news exchange was made possible by your Classmates. You can express your appreciation by making a contribution of your own, and by doing it this month. You've been procrastinating for long enough. Whether you prefer email, snail mail, or telephone, the address you'll need is just above this paragraph.

Continuing his excellent work on behalf of the Class of 1963 Foundation to maintain close contact with the families of our deceased Classmates, Frank Hilton recently corresponded with John Dohrman's widow, Mary. Her response testifies to the importance of the Foundation to those families. Here are excerpts from Mary's letter: 1 was touched and inspired by your letter Through the Foundation, you men of the Class of 1963 have really benefited my children. Please accept my gratitude for assisting my children so graciously as you have.

Jesse Anne Dorhman Kennard lives at 9045 St. Anthony's Road, King George, VA 22485. She has a daughter, Harmony, who is 13. Malia lives here in Hawaii. She and her husband, Michael Busekras, have four children, ages five years down to four months. Their address is 908 Alahaki St., Kailua, HI 96734. Summer is married to a Marine helicopter pilot, Maj Phil Grathwol, and they live at 1530 Corte Roberto, Oceanside, CA 92056. Summer was only three when her dad died. His loss left a huge hole in her life, since she had no recollection of him at all. 1 think all of the girls would value an opportunity to cortespond with someone who knew him. John's roommate, Dick Bryant, was killed in a tragic accident right before graduation, and I've lost touch with George Grider, his other roommate. (Secy's note: We have put Mary in contact with George.)

Please convey my gratitude to all of your Classmates for their dedication and commitment.

Words fail to communicate how much respect I have for your Class and this testimony of love and concem in which you hold your deceased members and their families. Warmest aloha, Mary Dohrman Another person wishing to leam more about her father is RickTrani's daughter, Cathy (rcmsarmstrong@ erols.com). Please get in touch with her if you can share any remembrances about Rick.

Tom O'Brien may be retired in Northern Virginia, but he hasn't slowed down at all. Among his recent travels was a swing through the Pacific Northwest.

Over Christmas week we visited with our son, John O'Brien '89, in the vicinity of Seattie.

While we were there, we also spent some time with Lu Anne and Denny Vaughan.

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Since the time was pretty limited, we decided on a lunch outing that started over coffee at the Vaughan's beautiful home in Shoreline, WA, overlooking Puget Sound, and ended up at a very nice, nearby grille. Although the winter fog had descended upon Seattle before our flight artived on the 22nd, the sun actually came out for a while and the fog magically lifted in time for a picturesnapping occasion on the wrap-around deck of their home. You might be able to make out a tanker on the horizon between Ann and me at a range of 8,150 yards (using my good periscope eye). That's about the best visibility we had all week. But, nary a drop of rain during our entire week, which must be some kind of record for Seattle in December! Our lunch was animated and stretched over a couple of hours while reminiscing, and it was great to see both of them again.

Denny has started his own company and is traveling back to D.C. periodically, doing important consulting work. When 1 let slip that that day was Ann's and my 36th anniversary, he adamantly refused to even let me split the bill for lunch! It was great to see them both again, following their departure from Washington, D.C, last June, and we hope they'll give us a chance to repay their gracious hospitality during one of their eastern business trips.

The O'Briens and the Vaughans Bill Hahn and I had a brief exchange of emails in Febraary. He said that things are going well and that he and Barbara are well settled into their final home near Subase Bangor, his last duty station.

They love the Pacific Northwest. Bill is still working for a Public Utility District there.

I have received very full and interesting communications from two Classmates, Alex Daunis and John Newton (jln@learnability.com), who have followed unusual career paths and overcome some major personal challenges. After reading their stories, I hope you will take some time to send me your own so that I can share them with our Classmates. This is Alex's account: After seven years of active duty as an ASW helo pilot in the North Atlantic, serving with HS11 and at NAS Quonset Point, 1 transferred to the Naval Air Reserve. 1 then served with HS-74 and other aviation units, based at NAS South Weymouth. For my last four years in the Naval Reserve, I served as an umpire in the Naval War College's War Gaming Department. In 1985, after 22 years of active and reserve service, I retired with the rank of commander. As an HS-11 aircraft commander and flight leader, 1 served as a "Cold Warrior" in the North Atlantic, keeping track of the "Red October" submarines. During the Gemini Program, I participated in four spacecraft and astronaut recoveries in the mid '60s.

After Aviation Safety Officer School at NPGS Monterey, I served a tour as Aviation Safety Officer at NAS Quonset Point.

After active duty, 1 worked as a staff accountant for Arthur Young &. Co., Arthur Andersen & Co., and graduated from Harvard Business School, before joining Jewel Case Corporation, a Providence-based consumer packaging manufacturing company, in 1973. Served as controller, then treasurer, before completing aftiUbuyout in 1979. Over the next ten years, while I served as president, the Jewel Case Company doubled in size, through intemal growth and five product line acquisitions. In 1990, 1 left to become a manufacturer's sales representative, covering the

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northeastern region for Jewel Case and other packaging manufacturers. This change allowed more time to travel internationally, and in the early '90s, I completed six business development trips to Russia and Kazakhstan.

The sales rep. business grew until April 1995, when 1 was rear-ended by a bus on the Massachusetts Tumpike. Over three years of physical therapy were needed to get me back on the road; 1 basically had to start the sales rep. business over again. But, things are getting better The children are healthy and happy. Oldest daughter, Sarah, graduated from Mt. Holyoke College in 1995, is now enrolled at Teacher's College of Columbia University for an MAT. Sarah lives in Brooklyn with second daughter, Julia, a 1999 Smith College graduate. Julia works as a photographer's assistant in NYC. Youngest daughter, Amanda, just started at Skidmore College, Class of 2003.

Numerous civic volunteer board assignments, maintenance work on some summer cottages on Nantucket, and an increasing interest in film and stage acting account for most of my after-work activities. As a member of the Screen Actors Guild since 1994,1 have worked on close to 40 feature films as a background actor or stand-in.

For the past two years, preparation for my acting class has become an important part of my weekly schedule.

John Newton's letter tells a very personal story, which he allowed me to share with you.

My dear Classmates, the last few years have been challenging for my family and me, 1 battled a relatively rare form of bone cancer called multiple myeloma, from June of 1992 through July 1993. My battle involved my seeking out specialists who were aggressive and could help me meet my objectives, which were to get at least ten more years of life out of this body and to see my family reasonably secure. 1 underwent a double, autologeous (my own) bone martow and blood stem cell fransplant at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock in Febraary and July of 1993. Formnately for me, I achieved a remission that has lasted up to now (31 January). There is no cure at this time for this form of cancer, just treatment.

With all the stress and challenges posed by my treatment, my wife, "P.Q.," developed small cell lung cancer, which she was diagnosed in May of 1995. She put up a heroic battle undergoing the rather traditional chemotherapy and radiation tteatments, but she eventually died from it on 22 September 1996. As you can surmise, our children have been through the wars and know now that life does not offer any guarantees. They are stronger for their experiences and our little family is closer Our daughter, Leigh (23), graduated from CU Boulder in 1999 and is now a counselor in training for an "at-risk, youth program" at the Charter Hospital in Lewisville, CO. Our son, Craig (21), is in college at Pima Community College in Tbcson, AZ, studying to get into the University of Arizona in the fall of 2000.

Along the way, I have had to learn some skills at parenting that I had never really attempted: nurturing, refining listening skills geared to young minds and hearts, and becoming an expressive, loving parent to my children. This has been a major challenge for a former Marine. Life is not as cut-and-dry as 1 used to view it.

As to work, I was heavily involved in assistive technologies targeted toward the hearing impaired. However, after some ten years of product development, enhancements, installations and service, the market segment that we were addressing matured to a point where the profit potential was nominal and I decided to withdraw from it.

My risks of going forward outweighed the financial rewards. Along the way, I had also invested in a startup Flight Simulator Company that eventually went Chapter 7. The technology at the time was quite advanced, but the capitalization was grossly insufficient. In addition, the principals in the startup, while technologically accomplished, eventually showed that they lacked character and integrity. The outcome was the demise of a small promising business.

Now, I am the chairman of a distance learning company named Leamability, Inc., which I was instramental in founding. We use the Internet as a communications channel for delivery of our fraining products and services. We operate here in the U.S., in China, Malaysia, and Singapore; we have plans to go to Taiwan, Thailand, India and Australia in 2000. Our approach is relatively simple; we partner with local businesses to deliver training to their employees and customers using our technology and methodologies. You can find us on the Intemet by going to our URL at www.learnability.com. I can be reached at my email address ofjln@leamability.com, or you can call me at work at 925-631-7600. We are always looking for good people with whom we can work.

I am currently seeing a lady with whom both my wife and I had worked some years ago. Dating at my age is a different experience. I can only take my life a day at a time and that has taught me to savor every experience. It pays to laugh on occasion, to cry when necessary, to pray periodically and to sip a little red wine every now and then.

As an empty nester, 1 have plenty of room for visitors (three days max, house rale, but negotiable). My home is 18 miles east of San Francisco in Orinda, CA; my address is 32 Vista Del Mar and my home phone number is 925-253-0827.

The Class of 1963 Web site has facilitated another reconnection. Surfing on the Intemet, our non-grad Classmate Jerry Carpenter (jcarp@ccstTat.com) found the site and filed this report with me soon thereafter: I completed Plebe Year in 1960 with the 16th Company. There were four of us together in room 4451 and we got along great all year! I was one of the ones chosen for the special craise taking Eisenhower to the Soviet Union until Francis Gary Powers was discovered and the invitation

by Krushchev was withdrawn. I have some great stories of life on the top floor of the 4th wing overlooking the roof of the squash courts, especially as the year came to a close. I was the unlucky recipient of a medical discharge at the end of the year due to a birth defect. I only had one kidney, a problem discovered during a physical! I would have opted for Sub School had I graduated, as my family had a history of submarine service.

I graduatedfromthe University of New Hampshire B.S.E.E., and the University of Toledo M.S.E.E., and have had a varied career m both Navy civilian life (Portsmouth, NH, nuke engineer), and computer technology with Sun Microsystems and Hewlett Packard and now with my own consulting business: CCS—Continental Consulting Sttategies. 1 would like to link up with Academy Classmates, especially DickAndrews, Tony Breard, and Frank Finney, if possible. I reside in Bonney Lake, WA; 253-891-3090.

Bill Sheehan has checked in from Waterford, CT, to provide us with this summary of his recent activities: I am in my twelfth year at Ortronics, Inc., still as director, MIS. Orfronics is no longer a private company. It is now owned by the Legrand Corporation of Lemoges, France, through Pass & Seymour Legrand of Syracuse, NY. I am in my second year as moderator of the Waterford Representative Town Meeting (RTM). The RTM is the legislative body for the town and the moderator presides at the bi-monthly meetings. I am also using my nuclear training as a member of the State of Connecticut's Nuclear Energy Advisory Council (NEAC). NEAC was formed when the local commercial nuclear power plants got into regulatory trouble. I have been visiting the Millstone Power Plants biweekly for over two years and providing reports to the council of my visits. I am also the second vice chairman of SeCTer (Southeastern CT Enterprise Region), a public/private organization that supports economic growth in southeastern CT. The Executive Director of SeCTer is John Markowitz '65.

Here's evidence that Jim Oakes is discovering the joys—and pride—of grandparenting the latest generation:

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This is a picture of me with my step-granddaughter, Cassidy Kuhle, bom on 7 November 1999. Her mother, Shelley Kuhle, is the daughter of Arlene Inch, my OAO for the last 19 years.

Cassidy's great-grandfather is Art Giesser '35.

Please take note of the "Navy" baseball cap resting on my lap. We've got to start early to get these young-uns interested in attending the Academy.

How does the Class of 2023 sound?

Jim Oakes the babysitter Thanks to firequent contributor Jim Metcalfe for this report about Navy wrestling during the Dark Ages this winter: In Febraary, three rasslers from '63 attended the Army-Navy match and wrestling team reunion at Aimapolis: Sharon and Ron Tebben, Steve Duncan, and yours traly, with Lisa, Carol and Bob Harper were also in attendance. I gave Lisa the choice between the service academies' Classes of '63 Valentine's Day dance at the ArmyNavy Country Club or the wrestling meet. She chose the wrestling (honest). Steve Duncan swore we could all still make weight and several times suggested we should go down on the mat and show 'em how to rassle. Fortunately, cooler heads prevailed. Ron Tebben probably could have shown 'em how. He has remained active in wrestling as a coach and still looks to be at his fighting weight. The rest of us just look like we're fighting weight.

We missed Mike Harman, Clay Morse, and Gary Thomas, all of whom were at the last wrestling reunion in '98.1 know Carla and Jeff Miles went to the dance instead of the meet. Jeff probably made the call instead of Carla. The reunions are every two years when Army meets Navy at Aimapolis, so all you rasslers mark your calendars for 2002!

Seeing Ron Tebben reminded me of the Summer after graduation. Ron, Hugh Schall, Bob Harrison, Miles Schmidt, and I rented my future in-laws' house in Annapolis while they were away. Lisa had to stay at my house with my mother Meanwhile, back at the bachelor pad (a.k.a. the Madisons' house), the ensigns were leaming the mysteries of housekeeping. One day, someone put laundry detergent, and lots of it, in the dishwasher As we all sat in the living room watching the TV and eating our TV dinners, we became aware of a huge and ever growing avalanche of suds coming out of the kitchen and filling the hallway. It took a long time to clean that one up! We also had instructions to feed the Madison's white cat. We prided ourselves on feeding that cat very well. After we moved out, the Madisons asked us where the "other" white cat came from. Apparently we had been feeding two white cats all summer, but only one belonged to the Madisons. There were other stories from that summer, but they'll have to wait. I'm not sure what statute of limitations applies.

Bruce Alitt (seawolf663@aol.com) has surfaced, sending this update from his home in Nevada: I am here in Las Vegas working for the state as afraud/complianceinvestigator in the real estate division of the Department of Business and Industry. Don't ask how I got from nuclear engineer to where 1 am, as it is a long story. My wife of almost 20 years, Peg, and I live in Sun City Sumerlin, which is in the city of Las Vegas. It is

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in the hills about 12 miles and 1,100 feet above the "strip." When we moved here about three years ago, we made a decision to retire here eventually. Actually, it is a great place to live. No state income tax, low property taxes, great weather most of the year and more to do then you can imagine. The facilities here include three golf courses and four recreation centers, each with pool and spa, as well as every conceivable activity. Unfortunately, we cannot take full advantage yet, but hope to in a few years.

I would love to hear from any of our Companymates when they visit Las Vegas, as almost every one does at one time or another My address and phone are: 10504 Sea Palms Ave., Las Vegas, NV 89134; 702-255-4105.

Here's some news from George Singer: As of this week (mid-Febraary), 1 have a new job and we will be moving from Seatde to Orange County, CA. 1 am now the COO of a fairly new telecom and utility company—it's a real live startup and sweat equity is a very tme term to be used here—located in Rancho Santa Margarita, CA (southeast of Los Angeles in the foothills, where the weather is great and it is relatively pretty). This is a very welcome change from the past couple of years.

If you've read our monthly report all the way to here, I hope you'll permit me a brief display of family pride. On 25 February, Lou and I were at NAS Whiting near Pensacola for the winging of our son, USMC IstLT Aaron Shelley '97. The guest speaker for the ceremony was Lou's brother, CAPT Ray Alcom, USN (Ret.), an attack pilot who spent seven years as a POW, including time with our Classmates Mike Cronin and Denver Key. Although a Penn State graduate, Ray gave an excellent speech to the new naval aviators and their families. After completing the CH-53E RAG in New River, NC, Aaron will be joining a squadron at NAS Miramar Here's a photo of the new helicopter pilot and his parents.

Aaron Shelley '97 gets his wings While at Whiting, I enjoyed a beer and a long conversation with LT Dan Deutermann, USN, son of Sue and Pete Deutermann. Dan's an instractor in HT-8, and a very impressive guy. I had a terrific three days among the latest generation of warriors, soaking up some of their energy and pride. It was a not-so-unconscious reliving of my own youth in uniform (at my age, the mid-20s are youth indeed), and I loved every minute of it.

Don't miss our next issue, which will include an account of Brev Moore's railroad journey across Canada. Have any of you good folks taken a memorable trip by rail on the Orient Express, the transSiberian railroad, one of Amtrak's routes, or the Long Island Railroad? If so, how about sending me your story to share with our readers?

See you next month!

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Pres: The Honorable Bernard (Bemie) A. Maguire Sec'y: Dennie Pignotti 10907 Wilder Point Lane, Reston, VA 20191 e: dpignotti@navalengineers.org Class Web page: www.usna64.org Our Class President, Bernie Maguire, opens this column with the following message: Shipmates: A few Classmates have relayed concerns to me regarding the Naval Academy's one-semester ethics course for Third Class Midshipmen. These concems have been either initiated or heightened

by Internet statements posted by a retired Navy commander, who is not an Academy graduate. I should emphasize that we Alumni have no standing with the academic programs at the USNA, however, as a representative of the Class of 1964, I am attending selected ethics classes this semes ter Due to these Classmate concerns, 1 am taking advantage of the courtesy extended by ADM John Ryan '67 at the December Board of Trustees meeting to attend these Classes.

At this point inrime,1 am not educated enough to comment on the Third Class ethics course except to say that the Leadership and Ethics Department is providing open access and answers every quesrion thoroughly. I will report on the results of this initiative via the Home page when I have leamed enough to provide any insights to you.

There are two other activities of interest to all.

First, Steve Claassen (claassens(gemail.msn.com) is looking into a Spring 2002 Craise for interested Classmates. Karl Vogeler's company specializes in group craises and is gathering some possible locations and times for Steve. If you have any advice, comments or related information.

Also, Connie and Waddy Garrett (Sailgarret(g aol.com) have agreed to spearhead the 40th Reunion in 2004. The Garretts are in need of volunteers to cover many of the Reunion activities. If you would like to take on some aspect of the Reunion effort, please contact Waddy and Connie via email.

This article is written in the cold of Febraary and delivered in the warmth of early Summer Nonetheless, it is always timely to add: BeatArmy\ Tom Tarbox reported that Tom Lynch was listed in the December-January issue of Irish America Magazine. Tom was listed among "The Most Influential Irish Americans in Business." He was cited for his present position as president and chief operating officer of ComPuCom, as well as previously serving as senior vice president for operations with Safeguard Scientifics.

Tom Swartz passes on his annual seasons greetings report: Tis the season to be jolly so I'll report on my Christmas letters by golly.

Cathie and Bill Tinston have settled in Alexandria, VA, so they can spend their remaining years observing traffic. Connie and John Gorman sent a colorful letter with an online picture of eight people including two grand kids.

Connie works for Apparel Markets and is playing lots of tennis. John is now president (not of the U.S.) but oiNorth America for James Martin & Company and president of his country club. I say bring back the TV show "Dallas" starring John and Connie!

Judi and David Lipscomb still hiding out in Lafayette, CA. They have both their ex-Navy sons living in the Bay area. They missed the Reunion, but did go to Europe last Summer Judi is still grinding it out as an educator in high school while David now works for MCI WorldCom Systems by EDS which is his fourth corporate banner in five years!

Marsha and Marty Block sent a real non-computer picture. Unfortunately, he listed six people, but only five were in the picture so I'm trying to

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guess which person must have taken it. They and their daughter Michelle are planning a wedding next November Marsha and Marty will both have to put any retirement plans on hold unless Michelle elopes.

Susan and Conrad Lautenbacher managed to visit Amsterdam and London even though they both are working hard. Conrad is managing the Navy's requirements and resources while Susan is surrounded by seventh and eighth graders.

Conrad still has those genes from Dick Clark. I asked if he would dye his hair gray to start looking my age!

Pat and Bill Holmes will be moving to Atlanta by the time this gets printed. Bill is still my intellectual hero and would definitely be my lifeline if 1 ever got on the "I want to be a Millionaire" show.

Margie and Jack Geraghty had a card that was really hi-tech, multi-pictures with their daughter, Elizabeth, and a poem. Jack can still be seen on CNBC and CNN. Jack, of course, is coach of Elizabeth's soccer team and her basketball team.

Because of this, I pray for Elizabeth daily!

Beth and Jim Ounsworth are still keeping the "City of Brotherly Love" ftill of love or, at least, Ounsworths. Jim is at Safeguard Scientifics and Beth is president of Friends of Philadelphia Parks.

They missed the Reunion due to, of course, a soccer confiict!

Barabara and Rick Mahan celebrated Y2K at their home in Danville. They plan to attend the 40th. I hope I'm still vertical! Maggie Maguire and Tom Bamett sent a great picture of their daughter, Megan Bamett '03, in front of her Plebe locker at USNA. Donna and Fred Crawford have spent a lot of cross-country travel time from Richland, WA, to Virginia, Las Vegas, Hawaii, and the Reunion.

Donna is still an H&R Block expert, while Fred is a senior director for the Plutonium Finishing Plants. They both sing in the choir and may have to move to either Idaho or Tennessee in the Spring.

Lynda and Jim Hewitt still hang out in scenic Noank, CT, near Mystic Pizza. Mike retired from the school board, but is still working in his paid job while Lynda works with kids at school. They plan to do some heavy traveling in 2000.

These were all the card notes I could find.

Marilyn and I are still keeping San Francisco a place for you all to visit. Just give us a call. Since she's a principal of a middle school and I am an assistant principal of a high school, we're never home so you could just move in with our son, Mark, who is a high school junior Here are some more 35th Reunion pictures from the 16th Company taken during the Saturday night dinner Seated at the first table are Sheila and Mike Blackwelder who traveled from Alpharetta, GA; Dianne and Terry Ward, from Greensboro, GA; and standing are Cathie and Bill Tinston from Alexandria, VA. Seated at the second table are Maggie Maguire and her husband, Tom Bamett, from Arlington, VA; Lorraine and Dick Muti who traveled from Waldrick, NJ; Pam and Bob Riordan (sorry. Bob, we cut you in half) in from Lawrence, KS; and standing are Mary and Tom Toczek from Nazareth, PA. Standing at table three are Rich Ruble in from Mechanicsburg, PA; Jim Maginn traveling from Manhattan Beach, CA, without his lovely wife, Andrea, who could not attend, and yours truly.

Seated at table three are Sydney Ruble; Kathy and Tom Lynch in from Dallas, TX; and my wife, Dottie.

Seated at the fourth table are Donna and Fred Crawford who came all the way from Richland, WA; Michelle and John TenBrook drove in from Sea Isle City, NJ; and Molly and Bob Springer from Decatur, AL. Standing at the last table are John Oehler and his wife from the 13th Company who flew in from Moraga, CA. The 16th Company

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L to r: seated: Mike and Sheila Blackwelder; Dianne and Terry Ward; standing: Cathie and Bill Tinston

L to r: seated: Maggie Maguire and Tom Barnett; Dick and Lorraine Muti; Pam and Bob Riordan; standing: Mary and Tom Toczek

L to r: standing: Rich Ruble, Jim Maginn, Dennie Pignotti; seated: Sydney Ruble, Tom and Kathy Lynch, Dottie Pignotti

L to r: sealed: Donna and Fred Crawford, Michelle and John TenBrook, Bob and Molly Springer; L to r: standing.

John Oehler and his wife Shipmate, May 2000

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Dave Gould, Wayne Amy, Dee Gould, Bev and Ken Middloion and their guests had a great time during the Reimion! We had over 50 percent of our Companymates retum for the 35th and would like to have everyone there for the 40th!

Although football season is long gone, I wanted to share some pictures taken after the last home game at the '64 Tailgate. We have a tailgate at all home games on the Navy side of the fieldâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;look for the '64 banner along Farragut Road. Dee and Dave Gould deserve a great deal of credit for putting the tailgate together this year. Dave wrestled with the NAAA for a good spot and bought a tent to shelter the food when the weather is not too favorable for tailgating. When Dave is off flying somewhere. Dee is at the stadium bright and early setting up the tent. These pictures show some of the regular Navy Football and '64 Tailgate enthusiasts.

Pictured in a beautiful fall setting are Dave Gould, Wayne Arny who usually brings some of his micro-brewed beer and one of his classic cars, Dee Gould, and Bev and Ken Middleton.

Dennie Pignotti, Wayne Amy and Jim Arrison I'm picmred with Wayne Arny and Jim Arrison as we try to solve some of the world's problems.

Rich and Sydney Rubel, Tom Barnett and Maggie Maguire Jim and Sandy Shanahan Sandy and Jim Shanahan are pictured with the Navy-Marine Corps Stadium as an appropriate background.

Rich and Sydney Ruble, Dottie Pignotti and Charlie Durepo Helping Amy put away some of his beer are Sydney and Rich Ruble, my wife, Dottie, and Charlie Durepo.

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Finally, pictured in front of the "USNA '64" tent are Sydney and Rich Ruble and Tom Barnett and his wife, Maggie Maguire. We usually have 20-30 Classmates stop by during each home game. Other regulars include the Bob Gaults, Chuck Laskeys, Bill Sargents, Ed Conants, Bemie Maguires, Jerry Andersons, Steve Claassen, Jerry Welch, Stu Johnsons, Grant Fulkersons, Bob Orloskys, Jim Porterfields, Steve Laabs, Bobby Suttons, Hugh Risseeuws, David Tuma, Strom Evans, and many others. It's a great place to catch up with others and discuss some of those tales of old! Plan on stopping by if you are in town or in the area. Better yet sign up for some football tickets and join your Classmates who enjoy Navy Football and the '64 Tailgate.

If you have any Reunion pictures or stories that you want to share please pass them on to me. As always, Beat Army]

We hope that spring has busted out all over wherever this may find you. We have only a couple of items to put out this month, as the email box has been pretty empty of newsy items of late. One would think with the ease of cortesponding these days that there would be gaboons of hot stuff coming through. Anyway, we are grateful for what we have and thank those who have sent us stuff to include in this column. With that usual and customary reminder to include Dave (see above address) on your mailing list, we move on to the news.

This first item is from Ron Bishop and is taken from an email sent to Dave Anderson, so it is a little out of context but if you pay attention you can get the drift...

Hi Classmate and Chief Scribe: Great to hear from you and know you are super busy getting the column in. We are very pleased that Jim has moved smartly into his AMSEC LLC Deputy Group Manager role out West. Was honored during his familiarization visit to chat with him at some length. We briefiy discussed my responsibilities and gave him a big Beat Army button before he went into a meeting with several WooPoos in attendance. Obviously, he is a significant addition to AMSEC LLC, a joint venture between SAIC (55 percent) and Newport News Shipbuilding (45 percent), and we look forward to his leadership and vision for Navy ship maintenance.

Appreciate this email and look forward to the Shipmate columns as always. Page and 1 are paid up for the 35th Reunion in October See ya then if not before. You do a marvelous service for the Class and we all appreciate it way more than we take time to tell you. Good on ya, Classmate!

Thanks for that, Ron. We will report now that Phil Ferrara checked in with Jeff Lewis to update his data and reported that he has retired in Annapolis and is doing volunteer stuff for NASS, i.e.. Naval Academy Sailing Squadron, and the local Coast Guard Auxiliary and that he was enjoying the 15-inches of snow that was on the ground.

We next turn to John Strahm (johnstrahm@ aol.com) who says: Good to hear from you. My current home phone number is 901-624-1091.1 am in the process of relocating to Southem California, though.

I have taken a position as Vice President, West Group Operations for Children's Comprehensive Services, a national provider of services to kids with mental health and behavioral problems. I will be based in Riverside, CA, and my territory includes Utah, Montana, Califomia, and most importantly, Hawaii. My family, Jayne and little Kayce, will move out here when school's out and the house sells in Memphis. Ever since I was stationed at Miramar many years ago, I have dreamed of retuming to this area. If I had only held onto the house 1 bought in 1967...!

We now hear from Don Waxer who brings us up to date with this saga: Greetings from chilly and snow^ Binghamton, NY! Well, it's happened again! I have been sold.

For almost 25 years now, I have been working in flight simulation for a string of companies; SECOR, Sperry, Unisys, Honeywell, Hughes, Raytheon, and now (as of Febraary) L-3 Communications. In Spring of 1998, Raytheon announced the closing of its Hemdon, VA, plant where Deanna and I had lived for 23 years. We 97

accepted the transfer to Raytheon's Binghamton, NY, facility where we arrived 1 July 1998. In the fall of 1999, Raytheon announced the closing of the Binghamton facility, then projected to be in March 2000. 1 was offered a transfer to the Raytheon facility in Arlington, TX, which I declined. For that, 1 was given a 28 April 2000 layoff date. We made plans to retire. A visit to our financial mangier in Virginia confirmed that we had the funds to do it. Then, in January, it was announced that the facility would not be closed, but would be sold to L-3 instead and they would keep it open. As a bit of nostalgia, the division will be named Link Simulation and Training. Still I plan to retire sometime in 2000, the most likely date is now 1 July 2000, which would give me 25 years, exactly, in simulation. We are in the process of fixing up our house for sale later this year Ultimately, we will return to Wisconsin, from which we came, and become dedicated Cheeseheads!

In the meantime, 1 am working as the project engineer on a confract to upgrade a UH-60 Black Hawk and a CH-47 Chinookflightsimulator used by the 8th Army in Korea.

The family is fine. Deanna retired from her Instractional Assistant job when we came up here.

Scott works for a company that makes medical office furniture. Kristen works for a medical laboratory in Richmond, VA. Both are still single. No pictures of grandkids for us.

Chuck Saldarini reports in that after leaving suimy Seattle, he and Mrs. Chuck moved back to Virginia and will be attending the 35th. He says he will stay retired as long as there is food on the table.

Speaking of the Reunion coming up in a few short months, we just received this update from Pete Gness regarding the price of the Reunion. It goes like this: The total price for the 35th Reunion Package had been slightly adjusted upwards and is now $1,300 per couple vice $ 1,200. If you haven't sent in your payment to Pete, please bump it up by $100 and get it in to Pete ASAP If you've already sent in your total, please send a check for $100. If you don't need accommodations, the package is still $600 per couple. Pete is planning on us doing a craise of the Sevem where we all can eat, drink and dance vice the big dress-up event at the hotel this year. Look for more details next month.

OK, take heed of that ye '65ers who are going to the Reunion numero 35!

We next head down to Tennessee and a report from Fred Rowe, who, with Herb Barnett, attended an Army-Navy baseball game in the U.S. Olympic Stadium in Millington. Our Mids came out on top of the WooPoos 9-zip. Fred and Herb were the entire '65 cheering section. What a job they did! Thanks for that news bit, Fred.

We now are in for some good old vintage Pete Lumianski. This is from his annual Christmas letter Pete did not send it in for publication in Shipmate. Pete did ask us to tell you that. Over the years, Pete has reminded us all that life has a lighter side with his fresh, clean, albeit ribald, sense of humor and uncanny way of turning words and actions into something really funny. So, here we go. If you are into the serious side of life and are counter-humor, pull up now and fast forward. Otherwise read on and enjoy. Take it away, Pete...

Why is it, just about the time you leam to spell millennium (two m's, two n's, two i's, two I's, and a lonely e and u), and put YK2 in the right order, you're so sick and tired of hearing about 'em, you'd rather go clean the garage? And then, as soon as you start thinking seriously about "The Millennium," you quickly realize what a ridiculous human concoction it is—like: When did it start? Why did it start? Who said it started? So what if it started? What must the tribes in Borneo/ Brooklyn be thinking? And what was the purpose of inventing an island in the middle of the Pacific, then importing some dancers from (Morocco?), and calling it the "Dawn of.. .whatever"?

And then, when you realize if you squeezed the age of the universe into a single year, good old homogenized sapiens doesn't come along until the very last minute of the last day!—so what is the big deal?? In short, a millennium is about as important as passing the 2000 marker on your odometer, and its passing only serves to emphasize the microscopic nature of the various mammalian species relative to the cosmos at large.

That said, it was kind of fiin, and a little bit drank out there this year So far in Y2000, nothing different has happened than normal, except one thing: Chris and I decided to discard and disregard our last year's resolution never to go on a diet. Despite previous protestations to the contrary, the belt line siege was becoming simply too distracting to ignore. When dramatic and complicated avoidance procedures are developed for tying your shoes and even tucking your shirt in, and you routinely experience a series of startle reflexes when you view your image in any reflective surface, you know it's time for action. After evaluating all the latest diet/nutritional fads, we rejected them all, and decided simply to count the number of calories consumed and then used by us each day. In so doing, we stumbled onto the Top Secret of Diet Success: eat less than you use, and you lose weight! Amazing, but trae. In just a few weeks of counting, we lost the desired 15 pounds. As a result, I've now changed my end weight goal to five pounds. At a pound a day, 1 should get there

by June. Unfortunately, I've been told it is scientifically possible to weigh only five pounds and still have a 36-inch waist, so I'm still considering the relaxing and attractive-looking liposuction option as my permanent waist control mechanism. In any event, we can now report that getting older and smaller are not necessarily mutually exclusive events, as 1 had previously thought. There are some problems with losing weight, however. One is the shoulder and eye socket areas are among the first to shed fat. Another is the appearance (and then) disposition of excessive (especially neck) skin. Another is illfitting clothes of all types, with the neck and crotch areas especially stticken. Also, you come to refer to grocery stores as mass poison distribution centers, and restaurants as murdering homosadists. Other than that, not much happens.

On to the Line-Up. (Hey, without kids, what would you have to talk about in a newsletter?)

One sure thing you can count on in life: once you have kids, you always have kids. Our eldest child, a female by the name of Michelle, had a fairly busy year (with the following events listed not necessarily in their order of occurtence): she quit a job, got "released"froma job, sold a house, got married, got pregnant, had a baby boy named Carson, bought a new-used house, found many bugs in that same house, killed all the bugs, and still maintained a sense of humor—all in all, as we gaze back in horror, quite an accomplishment.

Her husband, Craig, added to the confiision by quitting his job at Sprint Paranet recentiy and going with one of those go-go start-ups with not too much business yet, but lots of stock options and acquisition goals, if you know what I mean.

So there you go. We now have two grandchildren, a male and a female, Alexis Arden (6), and a lively/skinny first-grader The male baby, we've discovered (we've never had one) requires the use of special shielding devices when being changed and/or tended. Number two daughter, Emily, a highly trained elementary school teacher, continues to be suckered in on those attractive nanny salaries and perks, and can be found barging around in a huge suburban with three small frys hanging out the windows, while their parents remain focused on the business of their career lives. Emily took a little time off to celebrate the New Year in Ireland with her friend of many, many, many, many years, where they boomed around together from castle to castle while downing a pint of Guinness at each pub stop. Nice work if you can get it. Daughter number three. Angle, and her husband, Clark, continued their homesteading in Scottsdale, AZ, in a house with a

three-bay garage, thefloorof which created a tremendous temptation to paint—which we did— twice, before we got it right. Angle's still a stockbroker's assistant at Smith Barney, and Clark's a manager of a four-star restaurant at the Scottsdale Princess, the same resort Chris works in as a massage therapist. Clark provided one of our 1999 highlights of the year by crashing his motorcycle two days before the entire extended PJL family was scheduled to depart for Hawaii.

Since he was the planned tour guide for the trip (having lived there for three years or so), the other eight of us agreed to cancel the trip, look on as he repaired himself in the hospital for three long weeks, try to get our money back (eventually, we succeeded!), and now, a year later this coming April, we're all scheduled to try again. Clark subsequently retired his motorcycle and has been reduced by Angle to couch potato status until after we return from Hawaii. He was recently overheard, however, talking about extreme wakeboarding, or something like that.

Chris and 1 continue to live together in a generally amicable way, crossing swords and paths at relatively infrequent intervals. She works and returns with money; I pretend to work and regularly overlook the money part. Both our days are filled with list-making—the types of lists containing items that stick around throughout the year—like "deep cleaning"; or "making a budget", or "reading a book"; or "fixing the photo album"; or "seeing Alaska"; or "having someone—anyone—for dinner"; or "buying stock that goes up"; etc. Chris' highlight of the year was surviving an off-road, Pete-at-the-four-wheel drive adventure in the Colorado Rockies, as we cautiously traversed a 14-mile mostly uncleared, unpaved stretch from Telluride to Ouray in a quick, five-hour Up-and-Over Hey, you've got to leam somewhere!

My personal high, medium and low-light of the year occurred in December, with the successful completion of something called a "routine colonoscopy" by the medical people. Needless to say, the temporary conversion of one of your exit ports to an entry port leaves one a little breathless and morally unhinged. As it turns out, it's a type of institutionalized, public humiliation you get to celebrate every few years after age 55 or so. The first stage begins by drinking an entire gallon of a beverage created by some diabolical pharmaceutical company, and then by passing that same beverage, plusriders,in a much more rapid fashion. You then stand-by for the inspection of a lifetime, which if you're lucky, you'll only read about in the Docto Procto report. Typically, the last live words you'll hear before passing out are: "Now, if you'll just roll over on your side. That's it. A little more. That's perfect. Miss Hamfist, could you reach in and hold... I My next rectillennial event is scheduled for 2002.

That's about it for this year Nice to hear from all of you and we hope things go well over this next segment of time, which inevitably, will be dominated by all those people ranning for President. My best current advice to all candidates, both good and bad (in words made famous by Mr George Carlin); "Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things." Adios, and have a nice Two Grand from the PJ. Lumi Family.

Okay folks, you had a short read this month until we got our hands on the letter from Pete. Thanks again for those of you who sent in something to Dave. Special thanks to Pete for letting us entertain you all with his letter No column would be complete without an urging to stop procrastinating and send us your story...a few lines will do, but let us hear from you. May this be the beginning of a wonderful summer! Beat Army]

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Pres: VADM John S. Redd, USN (Ret.) Sec'y: CDR Mike Baird, USN (Ret.) 63 Franklin St., Annapolis, MD 21401 e: baird@toad.net West Coast Sec'y: Robert G. Johnson Jr., Esq. 30131 Town Center Drive, Suite 147, Laguna Niguel, CA 92677 Class Web site: www.usna66.org It would seem that we're out of the winter woods for now. I hope everyone is thawed. I especially enjoy not having to dress like Nanuck of the North to go for a run. I have several email entries this month and some pictures of Homecoming '99 to share, so on with the show.

Ron Witt (RWitt66@aoI.com) provided two emails, which I've condensed.

I thought I would try this email stuff. I was trying to find a phone number for Sam Lincoln.

I'm heading out to Jackson Hole for some skiing in March and thought I would look him up. If you have anything on him, I would appreciate it.

I'm still in Princeton and Nancy and I are grandparents, a granddaughter and grandson. It's ftmny, I don't look that old! My constraction business is really booming, we are building three hotels in New Jersey, another in Pennsylvania and should be starting one in Richmond and Roanoke this coming year, as well as some office buildings and a lot of interior renovation work. Ron Jr, who has the grandchildren, has been working for my company since he graduated from Drexel about seven years ago. His wife, who was the VP of the bank we dealt with, has just started working for us part time in our accounting department. Nancy has been doing business development for me for over eight years now. So now we have four Witts at Sweetwater Constraction (does that equal eight half-wits?). My daughter is with Morgan Stanley Dean Witter in Manhattan since she graduated from Penn. Scott Baum is in Foxboro working for the state of MA. He always comes down to Princeton for the Army game. Maybe we'll see you in Baltimore this year or at homecoming.

Thanks, Ron, and continued success in the "family" business.

Rusty Hale checked in to report that Sandra and he have moved into the Washington, D . C , area.

Thanks for the data, it wfill help much! Our new address is: 4304 Lorcom Lane, Arlington, VA 22207; 703-351-1354; e: rdhale(gprodigy.net. If I can be of any help on fracking down addresses let me know. Doug Hale '01 is now a 2nd Class at USNA, and will be Company CO this summer

for the new Plebes. David Hale is in the Corps, 2/3, stationed at Kaneohe. Later Thanks, Rusty.

Noah Sexton was thinking ahead for the 35th Reunion when he sent me the following email.

I am writing to ask your assistance through our Class portion of Shipmate. 1 have begun an attempt to put together a directory of our Companymates from the old 18th Company which then spread us out between the 25th, 26th, 27th companies. Have heard from several to date, but wish to reach out to a wider group through Shipmate.

I hope to put together a directory and get out to everyone prior to our 35th Reunion next year 1 would appreciate all interested to contact me at Noah Sexton, 11 Filmont Drive, New City, NY 10956; h: 914-638-0224; w: 914-634-0905; f: 914634-1625; e: noahpace@aol.com. Your assistance would be greatly appreciated and 1 look forward to hearing from everyone and seeing a lot of us at the 35tii.

Mary Jane and I are still going strong and will celebrate our 35th anniversary next June. We now have six grandchildren and have finally realized why one has children in the first place. In order to get grandchildren. I once heard it said that grandchildren are God's way of thanking you for not having killed your children. 1 can attest to the trath of that statement. I am enjoying semiretirement after selling my company to St. Jude Medical and am doing some consultant work with them. A Classmate of ours, Walt Fritschner, has just joined St. Jude Medical as CFO of the CRMD group. Talk about a small world. Two Classmates working at the same company. One just beginning his career there while I amfinishingmine. I enjoy the free time to see the grandchildren and enjoy sailing on the Hudson River only three miles from my front door Hope all is well with you and 1 appreciate your assistance in my attempts to put together a directory.

John Sigler retired as Director of Plans and Policy for the Central Command in Febraary after 34 years of service. John had intended to go quietly, and thought he had it all set, but U.S. Central Command had a better idea. They arranged for him to take his leave from the guided-missile destroyer RAMAGE. There to send off John were VADM Lee Gunn, Navy Inspector General, and LtGen Anthony Zini, USMC, Commander CentCom. John is apparently pondering three major job offers: (1) a defense industry company, (2) a nonprofit environmental firm, and (3) headmaster at a private school. That's an interesting array of choices. John says that he will miss the camaraderie the service provides. He also feels that those who will make the biggest difference in the Navy are those going through grade school now. Whichever job he chooses, I'm sure John will do well. And, wherever you settle, please remember to send me your address update, John.

Jon Barton hosted a dinner at his house for 12th Company Classmates in the Atianta area. They had 100 percent tumout as Jon, Will Wood, and Scott Redd gathered. Jon provided a picture of the event.

Shown are Donna and Scott Redd, Will and Catherine Wood, and Jan Kelly and Jon. In response to the December 1999 article about Bob Verratti and his race horse, M a r t y Healy checked in via our West Coast Corresponding Secretary, Bob Johnson. Marty recalled how he and Bob used to visit the racetrack to scratinize the racing form, and debate whether to gamble the gas money on the last race. He considered that truly dedicated study time, and rewarding. Marty says that such fun and profit continued throughout his Navy career I can attest to part of that. Marty and I were in the same ASW Air Group. I was in HS-5 and he was in VAW-121. 1 remember him making the rounds of Europe's best tracks while we were on craise. During my teaching tour at USNA, the Navy was still doing proficiency flying, and Marty and I launched on a cross country so we could get our flight time and Marty could check out the tracks at various stopovers that had been conveniently selected. After retirement, Marty says his wagers at the track hit a cold streak, so he simply ceased to play the ponies while he was ahead. For recreation gambling now, he is just as likely to visit Nevada craps tables to make a little money and a lot of noise. He retired in north San Diego with wife, Jeanette, and their two daughters, and commenced a second career in computer software. Five years later, Jeanette was diagnosed with cancer, and after a courageous struggle, she succumbed in 1996. Their girls were mostly grown at the time, and they became his moral supports. Recently, one has made him a first-time grandfather, probably just in time for the Class rash of grandchildren.

Marty is "for real" retired now. The year-round availability of outdoor swim pools, leisurely trail hiking, and biking agrees with him. J e r r y Maher, his former roommate keeps in contact. Jerry also plans to retire soon from his nuclear power plant in Connecticut. Marty, it was great to hear from you. I extend the belated condolences of the Class on Jeanette. Hope you make it back to the 35th and we can catch up.

On 9 Febraary, 18 Classmates gathered at the limcheon: Clay Spikes, Jim Galvin, Pierce Johnson, Robert Percival, Cliff Wiese, Mike Naber, Scott Gordon, Sam Nicholson, Chuck (jratzius, Pat Dennis, Pete Howton, Bill Hancock, Jay Gillard, Larry Fish, Rob Crenshaw, Andre Simonpietri, Ace Sarich, and yours traly. Though there was no guest speaker, there was plenty of Class news regarding preparations for the 35th Reunion. I found out that Mike Naber and Scott Gordon are working for Pete Howton at Grayhawk Systems. Scott's daughter is in the Class of 2 0 0 3 . Andre S i m o n p i e t r i (andre.simonpietri@lmco.com) is working for Lockheed Martin in the local area. His home is still in Connecticut, but he has an apartment locally; 9734 Washingtonian Blvd., Gaithersburg, MD 20878. His business phone is 301-640-2047, home 240-631-9399. As a reminder, the next luncheon is this month, 10 May, at the Army-Navy Country Club. Festivities start around 11 a.m. Our guest speaker is Classmate Tom Marfiak, who is CEO of the Naval Institute. If you think you can come, call me or send an email. Hope you can make it.

Bill Leonard sent me a change of address; 5200 Swain Drive, Warrenton, VA 20187; work e: bill. leonard@govtel.com; home e: wnl66@earthlink. net. Bev Daly forwarded his email addresses: BDaly@anteon.com or badaly66@aol.com.

Thanks to " R B " Adams, I have a few Homecoming '99 photos. Enjoy.

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Pres: CDR David E. Church, USN (Ret.) Sec'y: LCOL Jim McNeece, USMC (Ret.) 4832 Solomon Dr, Annandale, VA 22003-4041 h: 703-425-1380; f: 703-425-5073 (call before faxing) e: SCRIBE67@AOL.COM And...I have a couple of advancements to announce. Worldwide Wireless Networks, Inc., announced the hiring of Charles C. "Cliff" Bream as President and Chief Operating Officer Cliff had been a Senior Vice President at Cable and Wireless USA. Worldwide Wireless is an integrated wireless communications company headquartered in Orange, CA, specializing in high-speed Intemet access.

Jon Holzapfel sent an email and said he'd been promoted to president and CEO of Intemational Turbine Service, the company he's been with for twelve years retiring from the Navy. He had lots of other news, too...and pictures, bless him! Son number two, Chad Holzapfel '97, received his wings at Corpus Christi. Jon said, "I was the proud Dad who got to pin them on." Jon's father, V.G. Holzapfel '39, who had pinned Jon's wings on in 1968 was there, too. He was the first aviator in the family and the first of three VP pilots. Take a look at the photos. They're really good ones. Jon also said their number four son, Jon Jr, played in his final football game for Texas Christian University as they beat East Carolina in the Mobile Bowl. "I was hoping that he might play another year because on 30 September, TCU plays Navy! We have traly been blessed!"

Three generations of Holzapfel Naval Aviation Speaking of being blessed, Dick Meade couldn't contain himself when his new grandson arrived.

Pictures immediately went up on the family Web page and Dick aimounced to the world the arrival of Aidan Michael O'Connell, USNA '22. Now, all that part's true.. .pretty much. I'll leave judgement of the next part to you, but Dick swears to it and he's never been known to lie! He said that when Grandpa sang Navy Blue and Gold to him, Aidan yelled "Beat Army]" and then said "I love you Grandpa." And there will be no editorial comment from me!

More neat stuff: Dale McQuinn's daughter Elizabeth McQuinn '00 was named to the USA Today AU-'USA College Academic First Team. The team of 20 was chosen from 828 students nominated by their schools. Elizabeth carries a 3.93 GPA at Navy and wrote an award-winning ocean law research paper on archipelagic sea lane passage through Indonesia. She's also on the varsity track team, a Company Commander, and a bagpiper Wow! I feel inadequate!

Looks like Ron Cornetta is in the D.C. area working a contract for Exxon Mobil out of Dulles until late June. I missed seeing him at the last Slummers, but I understand he showed up with a box of cigars to celebrate the birth of his first grandson (must be something going around!). The word I got said the crowd for Slummers was not the usual suspects. Buddy Barnes, Larry Pigeon, Dick Branum, Bob Kelly, Ken Turtle, Dick Meade, Al Nilsen, Jack MaciduU, Denny Shaw, and of course, Ron, all were there. Jack was in a good mood, I think. Two local libraries bought his last book and he received his first royalty check. According to reports, the conversation was more lively than usual because of the new artivals and even the sea stories were new!

Jack Young sent a photo of the 16th Company East Coast reunion. He said: Someday we will join the 16th Company 5th Class Cruise on THE WRIGHT STUFF or vice versa (Sec 'y: see the last column). Anyhow, this is my 0-5 "wetting down" party over Labor Day.. .The party was just another excuse to get together With numbers from 4 to 12, our reunion is in its 12th year or so. Missing this year were Judy and Tom Kelly. All are welcome to join us, of course.

Shown in the picture are Mac McCormick and Ginny, Adam Llewellyn and Pam, Phyllis and Lou Balestra, Ellen and Jack Young, and Jan and Pete White.

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I get names right. However, like most religions, Jay has argued repeatedly that the nation faces sometimes we Scribes fall from grace. This para- unacceptable risks by going below a 300-ship fleet, graph is my confession. John can pronounce my and he has wamed that the curtent shipbuilding penance. level is insufficient to preserve even that level in I've gotta get out of this. That's it... Goodnight! the coming decades. That message has not fallen on deaf ears, as both armed services committees Jim in Congress have focused on shipbuilding as a key concem during this Spring's budget hearings. The Clinton administration also has made a belated effort to increase procurement funding in the fiscal Annual Membership: 45% year 2001 defense budget proposal and futureLife Membership: 30% years' defense plan. Time will tell if those illusory "out-year" dollars will come to pass, of course, but Jay, and other senior Navy commanders, have told Pres: Joseph V. Conway the story like it is to make the Navy's case for inExec Sec'y: Leo Kuehn creased resources.

531 Wilson Road, Annapolis, MD 21401-1061 The fleet will feel the imprint of his leadership e: lkuehn@arinc.com long after retirement. Jay set in place a series of Corr Sec'y: Gordon 1. Peterson 7994 Hidden Bridge Drive, Springfield, VA 22153 programs that will lead to a remarkable transformation in the Navy of tomortow. Increasingly, the p: 703-913-5404; fax: 703-243-8251 network-centric fleet of the 21st century will be a e: gpeterson@navyleague.org highly networked force equipped with increasingly Class Web site: www.usna68.com accurate, long-range, through-the-weather weapOur Navy's top-ranking flag officer's career is ons. During his time as CNO, Sailors and Marines drawing to a close this Summer, and the Depart- acquitted themselves admirably during challengment of Defense has confirmed that ADM Jay ing combat operations in the Balkans and the PerJohnson's rehef as Chief of Naval Operations— sian Gulf. For the first time, military power from U.S. Atlantic Fleet Commander in Chief ADM the sea was launched to influence political events Vemon Clark—was proposed to President Clinton in landlocked nations. Jay traveled tirelessly to be early this yean Jay has navigated the Navy through with fleet sailors as often as possible during such some turbulent waters during his four-year assign- operations—to remind them that their sacrifices ment, and throughout his watch he continued to and accomplishments were recognized and appre"steer by the stars" that he identified at his confir- ciated by the American people—and to hear firstmation hearing in 1996: operational primacy, lead- hand of their concems and issues. ership, teamwork, and pride.

Jay's first flag assignment was as Assistant Chief For the individual sailor. Jay's leadership on key of Naval Personnel for Distribution in the Bureau personnel issues contributed significantly to this of Naval Personnel. In October 1992, he reported year's major and much-needed increases in mili- as Commander, Carrier Group EIGHT/Comtary compensation and advancement bonuses, as mander, THEODORE ROOSEVELT Battle Group. In July well as the restoration of 20-year retirement ben1994, he was assigned as Commander, SECOND efits. He also has spearheaded efforts to reduce the Fleet/Commander, Striking Fleet Atlantic/Comdemands on ship crews during the interdeployment mander, Joint Task Force 120. In March 1996, he training cycle and to retum the luster and appeal reported for duty as the 28th Vice Chief of Naval of command at sea. Those initiatives appear to have Operations. helped ease some of the Navy's most pressing reJay has not sought the spotiight in all of his eftention challenges, and additional resources were forts, but when he retires in several months' time channeled to help Navy recraiters man the fleet he will do so with our gratitude and admiration for with the nation's best and brightest youth. all that he has accomplished. There will be another

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H Jay lets his hands do the talking following aflightat the controls of an F/A-18E/F Super Hornet in March 1997 In other news relating to our military's top leadership, ADM Denny Blair retumed to his CinCPac command in Hawaii on 1 March after completing an important visit to the People's Republic of China. During his two-day stay, his first visit as CinCPac, Denny had the opportunity to discuss a wide range of issues affecting Asia-Pacific peace and security—topics that remain in the forefront of U.S. diplomacy in the Western Pacific.

His visit followed a number of assertive declarations by the leadership of the People's Liberation Army, including a bellicose White Paper regarding Taiwan, in an apparent continuation of the war of words. In addition to discussing the U.S.China relationship, DoD confirmed that Denny discussed the importance of military-to-military relations. Also, the Korean peninsula, Indonesia, the U.N. peacekeeping mission in East Timor, and security in South Asia were topics on the agenda.

A DoD spokesman confirmed that Deimy discussed Taiwan with his hosts and expressed great concern over the recentiy released White Paper Denny reportedly told Chinese officials that anything that raises tensions across the Taiwan Strait does not help the goal of peaceful resolution, and that a solution to the Taiwan issue must be approached with patience and moderation. During his time in Beijing, he met with the Chinese minister of defense, the vice-minister of foreign affairs, the Chinese chief of defense, and other military officials. He concluded his visit with a one-day stop in Nanjing before retuming to his headquarters in Hawaii.

A DoD "blue topper" press release in Febraary brought the welcomed news that Bill Cobb was nominated by President Clinton for promotion to rear admiral (upper half). During a Pentagon visit, I had the pleasure of bumping into Bill and RADM Mike Mullen as they prepared to meet with the Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research, Development, and Acquisition). Mike continues to lead the charge for the surface Navy as the Surface Warfare director on the CNO's staff—his motto: There's no business like SWO business!

Bill, the Program Executive Officer for Theater Air Defense and Surface Combatants (PEO/TSC), is playing a leading role in many of the Navy's most important surface combatant and weapon systems acquisition programs. He will remain in place at PEO/TSC for a remaining two years in

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this four-year assignment. He is responsible for the 23 Aegis destroyers under contract for construction and, in his theater air defense hat, he also directs the Navy's major missile systems for surface combatants and the Navy's upper and lower tier TBMD programs. Bill and his wife, Karen, live in Fairfax, VA. Their 30-year-old daughter is married living in Oklahoma. A 27-year-old son is a computer engineer, living in the local area. Bill says that he still keeps up with our Classmates, particularly the 27th Company. He had a chance to travel in Japan recently with Denny Blair and MajGen Charlie Bolden.

There's a first time for everything, and I would like to encourage everyone to follow Larry Poh's example by submitting inputs to the column. Larry and I served together during a great assignment with the Sixth Fleet flagship's helicopter detachment back in the '70s. Here's what Larry had to say: This is my very first input to our Class column. Sorry this has taken so longâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;32 years.

What's the rash? If anyone in the Class can claim an earlier DOB than 21 October 1942 let me know, and I'll gladly give up the dubious distinction of Class patriarch. 1 am currently working for Anteon Corporation in the International Armaments Cooperation arena supporting Bill Cobb.

There is no doubt my wife, formerly Sallie Hazard, has cleaned most of your collective teeth.

She was the Academy's second dental hygienist behind Lauri Hanson. We married three days after graduation and have had four traly beautiful kids: C. J., David, Isaac, and Sarah. Although no grandchildren yet, our son David and his wife, Katie, presented us with our first Grand Dog! We're so proud!

About eight years ago I started a little business designing gifts for the seagoing community.

Visit my Web site http://www.TheHelmsman.com and place an order! 1 can't speak for the others but turning back to '68 was a true blessing. And if it hadn't been for my two roomies, Dave Samuelson and Rick Kadlick, there's no way I would have graduated. Whenever I stepped out, the average IQ in our room went up 200 percent!

Go figure! 1 did a tour with the Army in Heidelberg. I now call that my "Navy Appreciation Tour." There is a world of difference between the Army and the Navy, and I am so glad 1 chose the better portion.

Also in the mailbag from my own 13th Company days, Boog Powell reports that things are rocking along in North Texas: Baseball season has arrived, and I am looking forward to the Rangers play and attending my son's games. He hits the long ball better than I ever did at Navy and is hoping to tie into some college program. He's a junior Our daughter graduated from Texas in December and remains in Austin. Susans still an adjunct professor at SMU and is always on the go. Amazingly enough, I've passed 25 years at Price Waterhouse Coopers and still haven't gotten enough of it. I'm an energy specialist, so 1 spend the majority of my time in Houston and chasing clients around the world.

1 was able to catch up with Linda and Jeff Cook and Carol and Bill Owens in DC. during a recent trip. All are doing well. Best regards to our Classmatesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;there's an open invitation anytime they are in Dallas.

A tip of the hat to Larry and Boog for their updates; please keep those cards, letters, and emails coming! From Annapolis, Leo Kuehn forwarded a nice profile of Carl Ihli that appeared in The Sunday Capital recently. Carl is now the owner of the Bon Vivant Antiques and Period Refurnishings business at 104 West Street in Annapolis. Carl concluded his 25-year Navy career by serving as the chairman of the Department of Oceanography at the Academy. He became established in the antique business three years ago and still trades at other locations. His new store opened last August. Carl's wife, Maria, is a licensed psychologist. They live in Arnold. Two grown sons live in Califomia. I

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liked reading Carl's response to the reporter's "worst j o b " question: "Some were tougher than others, but no worst." Good words.. .and good luck with the new line of work, Carl. You can check out Carl's Web site at: bonvivantantiques@erols.com.

Here in the local D.C. area, 1 joined several Classmates at the Crystal Gateway Marriott in Crystal City for our regular luncheon get-together in Febraary. The attendees were Jim Cullen, Boh Eberth, Steve Erb, Russ Hermanson, Jack Klimp, Mike McHugh, Larry Poh, and Joe Sikes. The next two luncheons will be on Thursday, 6 April, and Thursday, 1 June, in the Terrace Restaurant of the Crystal Gateway Marriott, Crystal City. If you reside in the "National Capital Region" and would like to be added to Jim Cullen's email reminder distribution list, please email him at: James.Cullen@trw.com and he will add you to the list.

Lastly, Bill Metzger is trying to set up a group hotel reservation and game tickets for the ArmyNavy 2000 game in Baltimore. He is interested in hearing from folks who would like to participate.

Please contact him at: bmetzger@eroIs.com.

That does it for this month. Let me hear from you!

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Pres: CAPT Edwin "Steve" Potts, USNR Exec VP: CDR Pat Stroop, USN (Ret.) Sec'y: Walt Giraldi Tres: Steve Ward h: 703-864-1775; w: 703-620-2279 Corr Sec'y: Dr. Steve Hudock 6006 Woodlake Lane, Alexandria, VA 22310 e: shudock@erols.com Class Web site: www.USNA69.org Well Folks, this is going to be a really short column. Guess all of you are off traveling in some exotic places, or fixing up the new house, or fuming to the new job.. .whatever You are not writing notes to Shipmate] Upholding the "old" Honor Code, "A Midshipman does not lie, cheat, or steal."

I will not attempt to fabricate stories for this column. I will pass along two bits of news for you're reading enjoyment.

First from Dick LyIes: Let me take a minute to tell you about my fourth book, WINNING WAYS: Four Secrets for Getting Great Results by Working Well With People. My publisher, G.P. Putnam's Sons, has made it their top non-fiction book for the Spring of 2000. Harper Collins is producing the audiocassette version. We've already signed a deal for a training video based on the book, and have sold publication rights in The United Kingdom, Columbia, Turkey, The Netherlands, and Brazil, along with the Hebrew translation rights. It's an easy to read parable that will help anyone increase their power to influence others and become more charismatic. If you happened to be flying on American Airlines during the second half of March, you might have read a nice review in American Way magazine. It's available on Amazon.com now as well as bookstores around the country.

Next, thanks again to our Class Stalwart, Steve Ward, for arranging the March '69 D.C. area luncheon in an appropriate venue at the Ireland's Four Corners. A good time and even some green beer was had by all.

Again, it's a little hard to fill this column without any news, folks, so drop us a line. Beat ArmySteve

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Pres: Fred Hall Sec'y: CDR Royal Connell, USN (Ret.) 1978 Valley Rd., Annapolis, MD 21401 e: njrotc@arctic.nadn.navy.mil Greetings, All. Did you get your mailing, or your email? I sure hope so, this time I actually think it will get out before this issue of Shipmate hits the street. If not, oh well, I missed again.

Sparse mail this time because of a short lead from last deadline, but that's OK, I have a 100th night photo to share. Of course, I'll catch all sorts of flack for publishing it because it shows Mids carousing about out of area, and that sort of thing.

Besides, who knows who some of those people are anymore. They're all just babies.. .Baby admirals, baby colonels, baby captains... (see photo below)

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u s Airways has named William G. Bozin as its vice president, safety and regulatory compliance.

In his new position. Bill will be in charge of all US Airways safety programs as well as its relationship with U.S. govemment agencies on safety issues. Bill was previously with the Air Transport Association, where he was senior director, safety, since October 1996, in charge of coordinating between the nation's airlines and govemment agencies and other oi^anizations to develop policies and programs to enhance commercial aviation safety.

"US Airways is fortxmate to find a person of Bill Bozin's experience and talent to fill this important position," said US Airways Chairman Stephen M. Wolf (I guess Bill didn't tell them about his pep rally days). "Bill Bozin is one of the top aviation safety officials in the nation," said Carol Hallett, president and CEO of the Air Transport Association. "Throughout his tenure in the airline business, he has consistently and effectively worked to create an unsurpassed industry safety record. He will be a superb addition to the strong safety team at US Airways." Prior to joining the Air Transport Association. Bozin was a Navy pilot for more than 20 years, serving in a variety of safety, operations, training and command positions. He also is a check airman and instractor pilot with an airline transport pilot rating. As a trained safety investigator, he helped organize the Navy's first aviation squadron Safety Department and established the Navy's first fixed-wing crew resource management training program. Bill even had time to pick up a master's of science degree in financial management from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. He and his wife, Joan, have three children.

They will be based in Pittsburgh.

Jeffrey Lipscomb advises that the spring-like weather in Bend caused him to take computer in hand and for the second time in 30 years add to our treasure trove of knowledge. After a decade in Oregon, they are weighing anchor and moving to warmer climes. He and Frances are moving to Plantation Bay Golf Community in Ormond Beach, FL. They are to move in June. Now if only he could play golf...All are invited to stop in and play a round. The price of a round is a lesson for Jeff.

Bring your sticks. They are off 1-95 at exit 90, located on the par 3 fourth hole on the Prestwick golf course. The other big family news is that daughter, Jennifer, has accepted an appointment with the Class of 2004. Jennifer wants to fly. Let's hope she didn't inherit her dad's poor eyesight!

There's a deal, the 30th and a chance to see daughter all at once! PS: would like to hear from Clarence Mayott of the 20th Co. Clarence was forced out First Class Year on a medical and went on to prominence in the artificial limb business.

Network Access Solutions (NAS), one of the nation's leading broadband solutions companies, announced that Nicholas J. Williams has joined the company as president and chief operating officer. Nick will assume responsibility for all day-

CbMgratailations to the Class of 2000!

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to-day operations reporting to Jon Aust, chairman and CEO. "Nick has had a tremendously successful 25-year career in the telecom and data communications field holding senior management positions with market leaders such as AT&T Paradyne, IBM and, most recently, as CEO of Premisys Communications," said Aust. "FEs in-depth industry knowledge, ability to successfully and aggressively execute business plans, and expertise at building customer-oriented companies makes him an outstanding addition to our management team as we complete the build-out of the nation's most extensive broadband DSL network." Nick spent five years in the Marines as an aviator Bits and Pieces George Galdorisi sent me an invite to his retirement ceremony out in San Diego back in March.

I guess those books are just too much of a time sink for him to keep on being a mundane sailor Watch for his name to pop up again folks, I'll bet he isn't below the horizon very far I ran into Nick Carter just before Christmas, he introduced me to his fiancee, Laurie. Of course, by the time this gets out, she won't be a fiancee anymore.

Ring-A-Ding-Ding!

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region. Vanir is one of the largest program, project and constraction management firms in the westem U.S. Tom Laboon sent in a note on Valentine's Day with an appropriate picture of him surtounded by the women in his life. Shown left to right in the photograph are his daughter, Stacy, Tom, daughter, Melanie, and his wife, Marie. Tom's note pointed out that many of us tumed 50 last year (thanks for the reminder Tom...). Tom celebrated it the way most of us might dream of; surrounded by beautiful women in the tropics. His wife and daughters took him to Grand Cayman Island for a birthday surprise. Tom highly recommends it for vacations. Tom spoke with Bob Chimenti recently.

Bob is still living in Memphis, flying for FedEx and involved in union issues for the pilots. Tom also provided some sad news; Tom Dayman's wife passed away in December after a tough bout with

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Pres: CAPT Perry Martini, USN Sec'y: CDR Brian Horais, USNR (Ret.) 11234 Cranbrook Lane, Oakton, VA 22124 e: bhorais@schafercorp-ballston.com http://www.erols.com/horais/USNA1971.htm March is starting like a lamb in the D.C. area as I write this month's article. Jim Yeakley (jyeakle 1 @san.rr.com) sent in a note about upcoming plans being made by Rick Plank for another West Coast '71 gathering. When the Plankmeister was in San Diego for the Army-Navy game day gathering at Trophy's, he outlined some general ideas he and The Woodman were thinking about.

Based on what Rick laid out, Jim is referring to the gathering as "The Great Pacific Northwest USNA '71 Salmon Run and Thoroughbred Handicapping Challenge." That's quite a mouthful, but Jim is sure the Seartle planners will be giving the rally a much more reasonable handle once they promulgate plansâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;hopefully soon! For more details, contact Jim. Dave Vandover dropped a reply to Jim's announcement. Dave and his wife, Terry, just celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary at the Keswick Hall, a small rustic inn in Keswick, VA. Terry was ever so impressed by Jim's thoughtfulness at arranging such a never to be forgotten event that she agreed she would marry him again if given the chance. Any way, it brings to mind that if Dave is celebrating his 30th, then we must be approaching our 30th Year Homecoming, something of special significance to all survivors of 30th Company.

Not too early to be thinking about a bash in Annapolis in 2001.

Dan Nelson also sent in a reply stating that he is moving to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in early May (not everyone gets to do that, only the fortunate few) so he thinks he'll have to take a 9,000-mile rain check on Seattle and a million-mile rain check on freely available beer.

I received an announcement from Vanir Constraction announcing that Troy Pyles has been promoted to the position of vice president. Troy heads Vanir's Bellevue, WA, office and is the manager of Vanir's expanding operations in the Northwest

I also have some sad news to pass on about a departed Classmate. John Repicky and Brian Horais represented the Class of 1971 in Febraary at the Arlington National Cemetery fimeral services for our Classmate, LtCol John Porter, Air National Guard. John passed away in a motor vehicle accident in Tucson, AZ, in January. The ceremony at Arlington was conducted with full honors from the Air Force honor guard and band. John was a member of the Tuskeegee Airmen and son of a Tuskeegee Airman, so there was strong representation from other Tuskeegee Airmen at the ceremony. In addition, there was representation from John's Air National Guard unit in Arizona, as well as several general officers from the Air Force and Army.

That's all I have for now. Keep the inputs and photographs coming via email and regular mail.

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Pres: CDR Dave Hogen, USN (Ret.) Sec'y: CDR Rich Robison, USN (Ret.) 12695 Catawba Dr, Woodbridge, VA 22192 f: 703-413-5376; e: robison_rich@prc.com http://www.charm.net/~bfant/usna72/72toc.htm Greetings, Ladies and Gents. The grass is getting greener, the surf is coming up and your scribe has uncovered a few tidbits to throw your way.

How-to-Downsize and be Happy about it Anne and Dean Glick have mastered that technique by selling their home and moving to a new (actually, far older) one in Carlisle, PA, built in 1841. (It's actually a double lot, so Dean succeeded in procuring a double-wide...so to speak). In said move, they cut their mortgage substantiallyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; enough, apparently, to allow our man to quit his job with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and apply for one with the Habitat for Humanity as Executive Director for Cumberland County. Dean, 103

your Classmates await word of the outcome! (Their new address: 109 East High St, Cariisle, PA 17013).

This-and-That Al Kraft has been promoted to vice president of sales for TRW Global Enterprise Solutions division in Reston, VA. His division provides ebusiness consulting, technology integration and supply chain services. He worked for Sterling Software, Tandem Computers, Datapoint and IBM before joining TRW in 1997, and was most recently director of sales for the commercial information technology division. (Attaboy!) Jennifer and Bob Shields (steamboatl@erols.com) live at 10346 Steamboat Landing Lane, Burke, VA 22015; 703425-1199. Bob is the Assistant Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Dominant Maneuver in the Advanced Systems and Concepts Branch in the Pentagon. He retired from the Navy in July 1999 with his last sea tour as skipper of VICKSBURG ( C G 69). They have two children: Sarah, 22, who attended UVA and is currently on a six-month naturalist tour of Australia; and Bobby, 19, who is currently a sophomore at James Madison University. Never one to get too far from the water. Bob got a small sailboat which he moors at Fort Belvoir.

Fred Pottschmidt (pottschmidt.fc@pg.com) works for Procter & Gamble's Kemper Innovation Center in Cincinnati, and lives at 9435 Bainwoods Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45249; 513-677-0988. His wife, Dabney, is a real estate agent with RE/MAX Unlimited; their son, Fred III, is a stock broker; daughter, Whitaey, is a student.

Bill Hopper was relieved as Commander, Amphibious Squadron One aboard OGDEN (LPD-5) back in February. (Congrats, Bill! Where'd you go?)

Dave Gilchrist has been promoted to Executive Vice President of LTV Corporation, and will continue to serve as president of LTV's subsidiary, VP Buildings, the nation's second-largest manufacturer of pre-engineered metal buildings for lowrise commercial and industrial applications and metal building components, headquartered in Memphis, TN. (Congrats!)

I See Stars The following Classmates have been selected for promotion to rear admiral (upper half): Harry Ulrich (hgulrich@aol.com), currently Commander, Cruiser Destroyer Group 12; he and Mary live at 212 Moale Ave, Mayport, FL 32227; 904249-8000. George Voelker (voelker@kpt.nuwc. navy.mil), currently Commander Submarine Group 9, lives at Arieigh Burke House, PO. Box 887, Keyport, WA 98345; 360-779-8604. Also selected for two stars was Jim McArthur. Tim Holden has been selected for promotion to rear admiral (lower half). He is currently Director, Navy Anti-terrorism Force Protection (N34), in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. Rick Porterfield recently donned his new star while on the USCinCPac staff. Congrats to allâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;you make us proud!

Received the following from Curt Kemp:

Dan Meyer and Curt Kemp at Dan's Retirement

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Ann and 1 had the privilege of attending the retirement ceremony of Dan Meyer at the Washington Navy Yard on 9 October He and Barbara and their children have been wonderfiil members of our Navy team over these many years and we will miss them greatly. Dan represented that unique combination of surface warrior and naval engineer that we seldom see any more in our Navy. He was an operator with many successful tours in the Fleet including command. When he served ashore, he typically worked on building better systems for our ships. For the last six years, he worked in the Aegis program offices to provide the Fleet user the quality systems they deserve. He knew what was important to the Fleet because he was never away from it for many years. Dan was one of our last active duty members from 4th Company and we certainly wish Barbara and him all the best as he prepares to go on to a new profession. They intend to stay in northem Virginia for the near future (though 1 know they have a beautiful piece of property down on Lake Anna just waiting to have a house built on it). With Dan's retirement, believe that our only remaining 4th Company members still on active duty are Skip Wheeler and myself.

Have now been in my new job as Program Executive Officer for Mine Warfare for four months, and it has been both interesting and challenging. The acquisition business is a whole new world, especially for someone with an operational background, but 1 am much impressed with the dedicated people working in this area. Was up visiting Raytheon Systems in Portsmouth, RI, and enjoyed running into Bill Shepherd who has been with Raytheon for the past three years. At the end of the week, I played in the Alumni Homecoming Golf Tournament with Gary Rheam, Al Olsen and Steve Wilkie. Gary is with Ford Motors in Michigan, Al is working with TRW in the D.C. area, and Steve Wilkie is still flying with Delta after 20-plus years and lives in Maryland.

It was a crisp, clear, enjoyable day to share time with these Classmates, the course was in great condition, and 1 also discovered there were only three golfers in the foursome and 1 was not one of them.

Our family is well and has been blessed in many ways. Hope the same is trae for all of you.

Thanks for the note. Curt! His address: 9124 Horner Ct., Fairfax, VA 22031.

Caught on the Web Bill Nadeau (nadeawj@nu.com) is vice president and chief operating officer of Northeast Generation Services Company in Rocky Hill, CT. He lives at Ferry Rd., PO. Box 118, Hadlyme, CT 06439-0118. Tom Clarkin (trclarki@bechtel.com) works for Bechtel c/o Caltrans Seismic Retrofit Toll Bridge Program in Oakland, CA. He lives at 1115 Continentals Way #203, Belmont, CA 94002; 510286-6091. Bob (R.G.) Smith (smittyrp@slic.com) lives at 1891 State Hwy. 1 IB, Potsdam, NY 13676; 315-265-1146. Hap Harrington (michael.j. harrington@us.pwcglobal.com) lives at 8324 Cherry Valley Lane, Alexandria, VA 22309. Hugh McWilliams (HIVIcWillia@aol.com) has weathered his retirement and is now program manager, DISA WESTHEM, for Lockheed Martin Technology Services in Falls Church, VA; 703-681-2687.

Phil Mansfield (PhilMansfield@compuserve.com) works for United Airiines at Dulles International Airport. He lives at 7611 Yale Ct., Frederick, MD 21702; 301-473-8051. Dick Lee (Richard.Lee@ galaxyscientific.com) transitioned from active duty on 1 February 1999, and is Director, Operations, Information Assurance Division for Galaxy Scientific Corp. in Crystal City, providing information assurance services to the Patent and Trademark Office. He lives at 8917 Bald Hill Place, Burke, VA 22015 2102; 703-323-8957. Jack Boyle (jboyle@dsmet.com) lives at 2489 Tree House Dr, Woodbridge, VA 22192. M. Glen Keith (cathylange@aol.com) lives at 6538 Oriand St., Falls Church, VA 22043; 703-538-6342. Rob

Hardy (robhardy@ayrix.net) lives at 124 4th Avenue South, Columbus, MS 39701-5643 and works for Community Counseling Services. Chuck Neihart (cmaneihart@sybercom.net) lives at 1336 Whisper Court, Virginia Beach, VA 23454; 7574 9 6 - 7 3 0 7 . Eric Anderson ( e a n d e r s o n @ artanderson.com) is still with Art Anderson Associates in Bremerton, WA. He lives at 3046 Marine Drive, Bremerton, WA 98312; 360-377-7046. Bo Caldwell (bo@dpc paris.com) works for DPC Inc. He lives at 1401 Hillside Drive, Paris, TN 38242.

Chuck Schwalier (schwalic@colorado.anserorg) works for ANSER in Colorado Springs, CO. After retiring from the Navy in 1995, he and Judy retreated to their log cabin atop "Schwalier's Mountain" overlooking Lake Tarryall in South Park.

Hunting and fishing at its best! Their address: 632 Hourglass Court, Jefferson, CO 80456; 719-8364502. Joe Phillips (jphillips@zentox.com) lives at 10 Martha Ct., Poquoson, VA 23662; 757-8687743. Art Tillberg can be reached at artl@CO. MIAMI DADE.FL.US, while Scotty Borderud is now at Navy72@email.com.

That's about it for this month's mailbag. Have a great month! More to come. D.

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Pres: Tom Storch Sec'y: RADM Tom (TJ) Wilson HI, USN 8310 Gushing Court, Springfield, VA 22153 h: 703-913-0094; w: 757-836-3864 e: (w) tjwilson@eroIs.com; (h) comstanavforlant@aol.com Classmates, In late February, as I write this, it's hard to tell if January thaw was late or spring is early. The weather on the East Coast is way better than usual and probably better than we deserve. Flowers are poking up, people are out washing cars.. .generally Spring has arrived. But, March is just ahead! On to the news.

This is the month of Flag/general officer news it seems. In late December, having ran out of effective excuses the U.S. Navy was forced to frock me to rear admiral. Several well wishers from '73 were able to attend the ceremony...probably couldn't believe it was really happening. Some of our Classmates who attended include John Harvey, Bob Willard, Paul Ryan, Chuck McKeone, Tom Enright, Jim Zortman and John Cotton. It was great to see everyone and very rewarding that they would take the time to attend.

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Pres: Steve Middleton 516 Green Forest Drive, Sevema Park, MD 21146 Corr Sec'y: LtCol John Brown, USMC (Ret.) 15791 Edgewood Drive, Dumfries, VA 22026 h: 703-583-0385; e: jrbrown74@home.com Welcome to spring. I first must report on a visit that many of us made to the ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN-72), commanded by our own ADM (select) J.J. Quinn.

BG Hendrickson's promotion general with many Classmates attending and helping Leif and Karen celebrate the day. Pictured are (I to r) Paul Ryan. JJ Parus, Chuck McKeone, Jim Etro. Kevin Callahan. Leif Hendrickson, Bob Hartling. John Dailey. Steve Ritacco. Ron Ruescher. Jere Carroll and JJ Dicks. By all accounts, it was a great day for Leif and Karen, all the Classmates attending, and certainly a great day for the Marine Corps. Congratulations and best of luck. Leif.

On the subject of Flag officers. I got an email from John Cotton with word that the Reserve Flag board has selected two more '73ers.. .Roger Nolan and Steve Oswald. Roger hves and works in Rhode Island and Steve is with NASA in Houston. Congratulations to both of you. Well Done] John also added that the unofficial count is 19 Flag/General officers from '73.1 can't vouch for the number but can say that even if it isn't a record it's a pretty good average!

I got a great email from a Classmate who is currendy unemployed, but doesn't seem to mind being down on his luck. Let me allow J o h n Benjamin to tell you in his own words: The following is the first personal update I've ever sent. I finally have a story worthy of writing about! You may remember that, for the last five and a half years. I've been making my living as a consultant to the commercial nuclear power industry. After four years and four months of steady work. ComEd finally finished with me at their Dresden and LaSalle nuclear power stations. I found myself "between contracts." (That's consultant "spin" for unemployed.) The I^esidential primary campaigns were heating up about the time I finished with ComEd, so I became a very local "grassroots" campaign volunteer for Senator John McCain 'S8's presidential campaign in South Carolina. Other than voting, this was my first venture into politics. I sent emails, handed out flyers, made phone calls, organized a campaign speaker for Hartsville, SC, became a poll watcher, etc. I now have a new appreciation for occupations such as: door-to-door salesmen, letter carriers, telemarketers, event organizers, and public speakers. My highlight came when I was working the phone bank at Senator McCain's local campaign office in Florence, SC. It was the day before the South Carolina Republican primary. I was in the office by myself, because everyone else had left for campaign errands or personal business (like food). A local TV reporter and his cameraman came by to report on the last minute preparations. The reporter was on a deadline, so I was the one who was interviewed. I managed to work in a brief, but eloquent, speech about why I was supporting Senator McCain. Of course, the only part they used for the local TV news was that I had made phone calls and handed out flyers. My fifteen minutes of fame lasted less than 30 seconds on the air The poll-watching job was interesting to this first timer Senator McCain's campaign staff made lists by voting precinct of those people whom had told them they were going to vote for Senator McCain. I was to go to my precinct three times while the polls were Shipmate, May 2000

open to compare my list of McCain supporters to the list of people who had already voted. I was to call any supporters who had not voted yet and remind them to get out and vote. The people I had to call were very nice for the most part. I did get the husband of one woman who politely told me she was really a Democrat. The final part of the poll-watching job was to watch my precinct's vote count. 1 ended up helping count the votes.

Not much drama, no brass bands, no stteamers, just tired poll workers wanting something to eat.

Senator McCain didn't win in my South Carolina precinct, either On separate occasions, I took my two children to see Senator McCain at his town hall meetings. On the way home, I asked them what they thought. My 21-year-old son said in his typical nonchalant way, "I guess he would do a good job. And now, if he wins, I can say I've seen the President." My 17-year-old daughter is more excitable and somewhat star strack by any celebrity. She waited after Senator McCain's presentation and got his autograph on a small campaign sign. When asked what she thought, she said, "It was great! Now I have the autograph of an actual Navy pilot!" I guess I need to do some more work on my children's priorities. My brief venture into politics has definitely been a leaming experience. By the way, those campaign events you see on the news are a lot of fun and not as crowded as they look. Senator McCain is a great speaker I suspect the other candidates are good speakers, too. Most of the events are free if you don't mind hearing a request for campaign donations.

John, thanks for news. Sorry your candidate didn't make the cut in your district, but it sounds like it wasn't from a lack of effort on your part.

Stay in touch...we're all interested in what an exconsultant, ex-poll worker does for a living when the elections are over!

The mail bag is, once again, very empty. I am anxious to relay to the Class everything you send in. Email is a quick way for all of us to stay in touch. We're all interested in how you're doing so send me a quick note for the next issue. Enjoy May! Nan Sibi

www.usnaxom Bringiiig Ae Alumm Asscjciation

J.J. Quinn in his at-sea cabin Coordinated via email, the following Classmates made the trip: Alan Lerchbacher, Bing Jones, John Brown, Randy Seftas, Mick Halbreiner, Earle Babcock, Kyle Martin, Logan Milliken, Jim Rucks, Sergio R a m i r e z , John Branchflower, Steve Middleton, Tom Weaver, Rod Smith, and Keith Jones. Earle Babcock, Jim Rucks, Branch Branchflower, Steve Middleton, and Rod brought their sons along who seemed to be impressed like the rest of us. Alan Lerchbacher and John Peskuric brought lovely members of the fairer sex.

(In the case of Alan, we ended up meeting 64 of his closest lady friends in a 48-hour period, but more on that later) Steve also brought some buffalo meat care of Mitch Boswell, which J.J. most likely enjoyed soon after our visit. We were treated to a serious VIP trip, tour, and stay on a very impressive ship. A "cod" flight, trap, lunch, tour, flight ops, dinner, night ops, midrats, breakfast, tour, and launch; to sum it up we had a ball.

Seftas and Brown on the Cod Jim was a most gracious host and as we all witnessed, his crew and ship are reflective of a trae leader we are all proud to know. After we retumed to shore, a party broke out at Gail and Keith Jones' house. Gail, thanks for putting up with us! Greg Gilmore, although contacted via phone by Mick, missed the movement to Keith's house and was immediately suspended from the Class for 30 days.

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Before we move on, let's cover the monthly features. First, no funds still for Blackie Blackburn.

Sorry, buddy, looks like a long dry summer ahead.

For D.C. area folks: Mick Halbreiner recommends a monthly luncheon or happy hour at his restaurant in Tysons Corner If interested, send an email to Mick at halbreiner@aol.com.

Chris Perrien, dropped me an email as follows: Yo Ho, Yo Ho—a pirate's life for me. BZ for your first article: I'm pleased that the Literature of the Sea Class (Sea Stories) taught you something.

I've caught up with a few Classmates, but maybe you can help me first: I've been with IBM a year now—shows that the full employment economy makes even the large companies accept semi-skilled labor Frequently customers ask me questions of a technical nature, thinking that an Academy graduate should know his way around the wires and keyboards. Yet, when I tell them that I'll speak to someone at the office who may have solved this problem before and will give me the gauge to pass on, these same customers seem less than satisfied with my answer Attention on Deck!, what are they expecting—do my own cmise book or something?! Ref Classmates: CAPT Stephen Gilmore, the track jock, is about to turn over command of ESSEX, LHD-2 in San Diego. 1 heard that the Marines look forward to this evolution as he is the only squid who ever ran them silly—Class secretary excepted. As you might expect, Steve has had a good tour; his stateroom has more square footage than my house and the photo of Mrs. Marshall above the passageway door discourages unplanned visitors. CAPT Bill Walsh is about to assume command of MONTEREY, C G in Norfolk. He just can't wait to don the coveralls and hit the engineering plant.

Let's be sure and have the Class fund send Bill and Steve the commemorative bottle of Prell and can of Brasso so that they remember what's important and where it all started. Just spiffy. Hope you're enjoying the movies in the Yard with your drag (which sounds more like Shawshank Redemption than a college, if you ask me). Time, tide, and formation.

Thanks, Chris.

And from Morgan Ames, the following gouge: 1 chanced upon our Classmate Mike Turner last week during the AFCEA West-2000 Conference's Awards Banquet evening. Mike is the Executive Officer at the Shore Intermediate Maintenance Activity (SIMA) at Naval Station San Diego. SIMA San Diego is California's largest ship repair facility. Mike is preparing to "graduate" from his Navy career and is making plans for that transition later this spring. He is deservedly proud of having instituted a schoolto-work program in San Diego that affords opportunities for practical vocational training of high school students in work-related training offcampus. He shared a San Diego Union-Tribune newspaper article with me that describes that accomplishment. Well Done, Mike! Any chance we might be able to get Mick Halbreiner into that program? Also, I have several good photos of RADM (then CAPT, but selected for promotion to RADM) Joe Sestak's wedding to Susan Clark-Sestak and their groomsmen and swordbearers (including Bill Boulay, CAPT Hugh "Dugan" Story, RADM (then CAPT) Dave Antanitus and me). Other photos of the past year include photos of COL Scott Leitch, USMC, and me at last year's Navy League SeaAir-Space symposium; photos of Stu Cvrk, Dave Topolewski, Erik Christensen, CAPT Mike Bachmann, "D" D'Ambrosio and me that were taken at Erik's home in Scripps Ranch area of San Diego when he and his wife hosted us all for dinner Got a great photo of Erik with his cockatoo (a big white parrot-like bird!) sitting atop his shoulder, a la pirate Cap'n. Also, photos of CAPT Joe Avveduti, CAPT Joe Ruppert and me at this year's Military Order of the Carabao's 1,000th Annual "Wallow" (which conflicted unfortunately with }.}. Quinn's USNA74 "mini-reunion at sea" aboard his command, ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

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aboard ABE with J.J. that will be appearing in Shipmate, but...should you want any of these, send me your "snail mail" address and I'll send them to you. BeatArmy'.

Thanks, Morgan! I swear you see more people in a month than any of us see in five years!

Via Steve Middleton, we received an update on Eric Carlson from his wife, Elaine. After bugging Eric for 25 years, she wrote: Eric was on active duty for ten years—one year grad school, one year Nuc Power School, six months SWOS, then sea duty on ENTERPRISE and BAINBRIDGE (CIC Officer). From there he went to University of Colorado at Boulder as the ROTC instructor. While there he starting taking M.B.A. Classes and set about the task of deciding to stay in or get out. After much deliberation (ten years at this point), we decided to get out. We were unemployed with two kids, two cars, and a mortgage while he finished the last two semesters of his M.B.A. 1 honestly do not know how we survived! At any rate, after the M.B.A., it was job shopping time and we ended up back in the Bay Area with GTE-Sprint. Six months later, GTE merged with United Telecom and relocated to Kansas City. We stayed in the Bay Area for another year to shut down the operations there, then transferred to KC. We live in Overland Park, and have been here for 12-1/2 years. We have two boys; the oldest is a Plebe this year, and the youngest is a junior in high school. Eric has remained in the Reserve and is captain in the ED community. He drills out of Houston at present, and their unit is support for the Avondale Shipyard in New Orleans, which is building USNS transport ships. We returned to Annapolis on 1 July for 1-Day for our son, Justin Carlson '03.1 was busy doing the "mom" thing, but Eric was busy going down memory lane. We retumed in mid-August for Plebe Parent's Weekend and, between those two trips, the recall regarding Plebe year for Eric has been tremendous. He has commented that he hadn't thought about some of those things for 29 years! While there, he ran into Dave Johnson (his son is a Firstie), and Jon Lund, whose son is also a Plebe. Jon got out after five years, then later on came back on active duty and went to medical school; he is an OB/ GYN at the Oceanside Naval Hospital. And of course we ran into Don Montgomery who is a minority recruiter for the Academy. Eric has seen Don last winter in Kansas City when Don brought a group of Mids to a Black Engineers symposium. Jeff Kranz was there also (he lives in the KC area), and has gotten Eric involved in the Blue and Gold Officer program. Jeff's daughter is a Youngster this year Email is EcinOP(§aol.com. enclosed are some great pictures of Eric, his Mid car, chukka boots, and our son, Justin, wearing Eric's original Mess Dress!

Elaine, thanks for the update and pics!

Eric and Justin sharing uniforms

Plebe Year: Ted Bregar, Eric, and Lance Anderson Also, we received an update for Steve Chestnut, who lives at 4174 KnoUcrest Circle, Martinez, GA 30907. Steve wrote After reading in a recent Shipmate, noted some of other sons of '74 grads in the Class of 1999.

Thought 1 would let you know that I had two sons graduate in 1999. Both are in Newport, getting ready for surface line assignments. Jeff will be going to San Diego and Greg to Norfolk. The picture was taken at graduation and also shows our youngest son, Mike—'05? Karen and 1 have been in Georgia for 15 years, enjoying the warm temps and southem life. I'm working for Southern Nuclear in Augusta.

Thanks, Steve.

L to r: Steve, Greg '99, Jeff '99, and Mike '05?

Eric with his Mid-Mobile and Chukkas!

The Atlanta Chapter is looking for all your Georgia types. Jim Ravenel '45 writes: Our Atlanta Chapter is making every effort to update our Roster Would you be kind enough to give us the names, addresses, and phone numbers of all of your Classmates that reside in Georgia? We sure would be most grateful!

Send the information directly to our VP of Information Services, Chuck Martini '84, cmartini(gcoretech.com.

Finally, some sad news. Our Classmate, Tom Goodman died of cancer on 2 February 2000.

Originally from St Petersburg, Tom was an executive with Honeywell/Allied Signal with more than 20 years service in the avionics industry. Tom is survived by his wife, Patricia Joan "Patty"; a daughter, Anastacia Marie Goodman, and two sons, Brett R and Grant T, all of Scottsdale, AZ. Please remember Tom in your thoughts and prayers.

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Pres: Steve Hubbard S e c y : CAPT Larry Warrenfeltz, USN 21 Colony Trail Drive, Mandeville, LA 70448 h: 504-626-4964; e: highvolt_sid@hotmail.com Dear 'mates, first things first! Congratulations to the Harpers of Annapolis on the arrival of the newest Class of "75 offspring, Emily Jean Harper!

Professor Mark Harper and wife, Laurie, are the proud parents. Michael, Caroline, Thomas, and Patrick are the proud siblings.

Col Deke Able. U S M C . completed Cold Weather Survival School in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of Califomia in February. Deke is assigned to the Headquarters Battalion of the second MarDiv in Camp Lejeune.

Another new baby? Cold weather survival?

Maybe I'm getting old faster than the rest of you, but those adventures both slipped off my to-do list a couple years ago!

25th Homecoming Alert!

Early in March Steve Hubbard held an organizational meeting to kick 25th Reunion planning into high gear. As my deadline is before the plaimed meeting, you'll have to hold your breath imtil the June issue for meeting minutes. Check the Class Web page for the latest information. This much we do know: Homecoming weekend is 20-22 October 2000. Our headquarters will be at the BWI Marriott, as it was for the 20th. Plan on a Memorial Service in the Chapel on Friday morning. There will be a Class meeting on Friday aftemoon. This will be a very important meeting for our Class. We need as many 'mates as possible to be there to help in planning our fiiture as we sail off into the second half of our lives.

RADM Craig Quigley was the featured speaker for the Greater Washington Alumni Association's March luncheon. Guest speakers are getting younger all the time!

Marc and I, along with A.J. Ronacher (now a science and math teacher) enjoyed the ArmyNavy game at Trophy's, along with about 300 other close friends. A.J, noted that when we ordered drinks he and I were sipping iced teas while Marc gulped down a beer A.J. noted dryly.

"What's wrong with this picture?" Marc has also been spotted riding around on a motorcycle, a huge hog. It appears that he is in throes of a "misspent middle-age," playing catch-up for the debaucheries he missed while studying his buns off at the Canoe Club. What's wrong with this picture indeed!

A.J. and Roxanne are living in Chula Vista with two daughters at UC Santa Barbara. Their youngest, son T.J.. is a star baseball player Maybe he can play for the Mets and give his dad and mom the life of leisure. Marc and wife. Debbie, are living in Point Loma with their son, Michael, a high school senior Marc is currently the ACOS for ship maintenance and engineering on the ComNavSurfPac staff He has orders to assume command of the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head, MD, next July. Just in time to be driving distance away for the 25th! His other son, David, is attending UC Davis and doing very well. Needless to say, the Siedband sibs are brilliant young guys. They are also a good-looking pair of young men, the beneficiary of Debbie's genes.

I'm currently writing big checks to the UC system as well; Santa Barbara my "charity" of choice. My lad, Justin, is living with his best friend in a dorm room that would hardly pass a white glove inspection, though gloves (and perhaps a Level 1 Biohazard suit) would be appropriate attire when visiting. My daughter Liz is a freshman in high school and is branching out from competitive dancing (lots of money, no scholarship potential) to Track and Field (relatively little costs, huge scholarship potential).

Lynn and 1 celebrated our 21 st anniversary last summer and we are looking forward to the Reunion in the fall.

And last things, last (but not least). Attention all Georgians! The Atlanta Alumni Chapter is updating their address list. Send your name, address, and phone number to Jim Ravenel '45 (ravinvest@ travenel.net). Director USNA Alumni AssociationAtianta, 230 Lakeview Ridge, East Roswell, GA 30076-3205; 770-992-1515, f: 770-587-1122.

Go Navy, Larry

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Oh fearless 1975 scribe! Thought I would send you a photo of three handsome devils and this news blast.

Newsfromsunny San Diego.. .the trio pictured indulged in a 4.0 lunch aboard PELELIU (LHA-5), guests of Commanding Officer CAPT Larry Watson. The other two reprobates are CAPT Marc Siedband and your correspondent, Jim Tenuto. In the traditional parlance, "A good time was had by all." PELELIU is Larry's second command and his first assignment aboard a Gator since his JO days. Larty and his wife, Cathy, are living on North Island with their 3 1/2-year-old son, Larry II. The ship is scheduled for an overhaul, though Larry is slated to walk her decks until January 2002 with a fiill deployment as CO. Shipmate, May 2000

Annual Membership: 59% Life Membership: 24%

Pres: Chuck Gorum 146 Prince George S t , Annapolis, MD 21401 h: 410-263-3337; e: cgoram@annap.infi.net Sec'y: Chuck Dirienzo 1014 North 300 West, Springville, UT 84663 h: 801-491-3497; w: 801-861-9219 e: chuckles@ipass.net or cdirienzo@novell.com Hello, '76. Not too much to report this month.

Be sure to check out the Class Web site, www.usna76.org or www.usna76.com for information relating to Classmates and the Reunion.

Mike Drennan (mdrennan@certipro.com) writes, he has big news, a change in jobs. His last day at Inter-National Research Institute (INRI) was 29 February 2000. After twenty years in a Marine uniform and another four years as INRI's USMC program manager, Mike is finally making a break from the Corps. Starting 1 March 2000, he will be the Vice President of Operations for Precision CertiPro Warehouse (PCW). PCW is an automotive warehouse and distribution business headquartered in Chantilly, VA. They have main distribution centers in Beltsville, MD, and Pittsburgh, PA, and 28 distribution sites throughout the BaltimoreWashington and central and westem Pennsylvania

areas. The President of PCW is Rich Johnsto!! father of Rich Johnston '98. IVIike can be reached at 703-222-2300, ext. 201. Good luck, Mike!

Frank Murphy (jtaplett@anteon.com ) is currently residing in Annapolis Maryland at 63 Shaw St., A n n a p o l i s , MD, 2 1 4 0 1 ; 4 1 0 - 2 8 0 - 5 4 5 9 fmurphy@rosslyn.sparta.com. He currently works at Anteon Corporation in Crystal City with Pete Varsanyi. And from Jim Taplett: Jim_Taplett@ rosslyn.sparta.com. I received a quick note about CAPT Dick Feckler's Change of Command with a picture. Unfortunately, I didn't receive the picture in time for this submission. Look for it in the next issue of Shipmate. A few Classmates were in attendance and in the picture. Jim is a civilian shipmate of Frank Murphy, Pete Varsanyi, and Pete Klein at Anteon, Corp (Systems Engineering Group)...for the time being anyway. His particulars are: 1901 Miracle Lane, Falls Church, VA 22043 (wife: Katie); 703-506-1901; 703-524-6901 x458. That's all for this month.

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Pres: CAPT Richard (Rick) White, USN 1404 Hunting Wood Road, Annapolis, MD 21403 w: 703-605-5605 ext 145; h: 410-295-0089 e: (w) WhiteRW@navsea.navy.mil; (h) betwhite@erols.com Sec'y: Bob Sanderson 210 Autumn Chase Drive, Annapolis, MD 21401 h: 410-571-6267 e: bsanderson@anacomp.com From Rick White: Greetings from Annapolis! By the time you read this column, the Class will have held a couple of get-togethers. On 24 February, Pete Hyers hosted a Class luncheon at the Army-Navy Country Club in Arlington, VA, with about 20 Classmates in attendance. Also, Pam and Sam Locklear (you know, the new 'Dant) hosted a party at his quarters on 18 March. Not only did we have a great tumout, but we also avoided getting kicked off the Yard! Everyone had a great time, and we owe much thanks to Sam and Pam for their hospitality. I'd also like to thank Ken Trass, Torii and Bruce Campbell, and Dave Paddock, who volunteered to help organize and coordinate this event. 1 don't want to sound like a broken record, but Classmate connectivity is one of my strategic goals, so if you didn't get the message about either party, then please update your contact information (especially your email address) at the Alumni Association via the Association Web site (www.usna.com, under "membership"). Go "77!

From Pete Green (pgreen@paxr.veridian.com) or (verde77@earthlink.net): I'm still down here in Southern Maryland working as the program manager for our VP team

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and chief pilot for our flight organization (yes, I still get to fly the mighty Orion!). 1 work for Veridian (formerly known as Veda), and I'm entering my 15th year of supporting the Navy developing and testing systems for the P-3 fleet.

My big news from the immediate past is my marriage to Lynne in May 1999.1 was introduced to Lynne at an airline (formerly P-3) pilot's 40th birthday party in downtown Annapolis in 1996.

After three years of mnning up and down Route 2, we've now completed the consolidation of our families. Some of the Blue-and-Gold brethren who attended our wedding were CDR Steve Wright '84, Ray Miskowski '78, CAPT Bill Yeager '78, LtCol Floyd Houston '77, CAPT Jim Small '78, and Jeff Pinkel '74. Also, amongst our kid's guests was Kristen Davidson '03.

We're very proud of our three kids in college (a University of Maryland senior, a Towson Universityfreshman,and a Penn Statefreshman),and our high school sophomore, Jenny, is reluctantly adapting to being at home alone with the 'rents.

Lynne and 1 invite anyone who finds themselves in the Pax River area to stop by and share some of our Southem Maryland hospitality. Beat Army!

From Michael Brunskill (brunskil@mail. monmouth.army.mil): I am curtently on "what could tum out to be" 18 months of ADSW at Fort Monmouth, NJ. Spa War set-up a liaison office here and had difficulty in staffing it, so 1 agreed to temporarily help since 1 was in the local area. The timing coincided nicely with the AlliedSignal/ Honeywell merger and the impending closure of the Bendix Guidance and Confrol Systems in Teterboro, NJ, where 1 was working (not to mention the Army-Navy game!).

While assigned here, 1 recently received a "coin" from MGEN Nabors for staffing the "Team C4ISR" booth at MILCOM 99 in Atlantic City, NJ, This "token action" is an Army and Air Force tradition that 1 had never heard of it until I started working here.

His girls, Morgan and Dana, are growing up way too fast for him and Bonnie; Morgan, who tumed five in January, loves to dress-up as Snow White or Ariel, and Dana, who had her second birthday at the end of December, doesn't let anything or anyone get her down. Bonnie and the girls enjoyed having Stratton spend time with them as a "house husband" immediately after retirement; needless to say, they are not as thrilled with his new working hours.

Closing Remarks Well, another month, another column. I hope all is well with everyone. Please continue to keep me informed of any news or events that you'd like to circulate to the Class, and don't forget to update your contact information with the Alumni Association (www.usna.com, under "membership").

Also, if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions about the column, please feel free to drop me a line anytime (keep in mind that this is your column!). Until next month! -Bob Sanderson

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Pres: Arch Griffin Sec'y: Vince Balderrama 45 Little Fawn Drive, Shelton, CT 06484 e: VBalderrama@Sikorsky.com Class Web site: http://usnal978.org

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Annual Membership: 5% Life Membership: 88%

Pres: LCDR Sean Gate, USN (Ret.) e: stcate@prodigy.net Sec'y: LCDR John "Wiz" Withers, USN (Ret.) 22445 Bluebird Court, Leonardtown, MD 20650 h: 301-997-1980; w: 301-342-4936 exL 156 e: (h) WithersJ7@starpowernet; (w) WithersJD@navair.navy.mil Class Web site: www.usna79.com

MGEN Nabors presenting to Michael Branskill with "coin" for supporting MILCOM 99

Greetings, '79!

Already, it's May! Can you believe it? It seems like only yesterday we were discussing Y2K or its distant cousin, "F29." Did you miss that one? You

know, the one where years divisible by 100 are not leap years unless they are also divisible by 400, then there is a 29 February. If you're like me, you're glad all that hysteria is over Now we're back to the more comfortable hysteria, such as that which accompanies a presidential election year I always look forward to May. As a kid growing up in Ohio, May meant that the weather was warming, the flowers were out, they were racing at Indy, and my mother finally put away my heavy coat.

With May comes the Memorial Day Weekend, the unofficial start of the summer season. Our Class ended the month—and Plebe Year—with a nearrecord time for conquering Hemdon. And a mere 21 years ago, '79 participated in the first-ever Commissioning Week and May graduation. (It's sobering to realize that to almost a whole generation of Midshipmen, the term "Dead Week" is just an historical anecdote.) In the not-too-distant future, May will bring the graduation and commissioning of the first son or daughter of a '79er!

Which reminds me: do we have any sons or daughters of Classmates curtently attending our alma mater or one of the other Academies? Now trust me, I've done the math, and I know it's possible, although the odds won't favor it for a few more years. But, if anyone falls into that category, please let me know.

First off the press is a 20th Reunion photo of my own 19th Company. As I told you last month, I finally used up that roll of film, and just recently got the photos back. To my knowledge, this is the largest single gathering of our Company since graduation. It certainly was the largest I attended!

Anyway, the players from left to right are Kevin Derbin, Mark Roberts, Dom Gorie, Roger Mau, Jeff Niner, yours truly, Ted Griffith, Kevin Boyd, Dave Bethel, Vince Bousa, Orlando Anzalotta and Rick Malone. It was quite a gathering, and some of us actually made it in to watch the game!

All of us were glad to see Vince Bousa up and about. And it was the first chance that many of us had to congratulate Dom Gorie on his astronaut selection. Late last winter, Dom completed a successful mission onboard ENDEAVOR, mapping the earth's surface to a degree never before achieved.

Dom, let me know when those maps get published—St. Mary's County hasn't updated its street maps in about 20 years, and I'm tired of not finding my destination! Rick Malone: if you haven't received your copy of this photo by now, call me, because it means I've had an "organizational challenge" (I lost your address).

1 also saw Sean Rice in Atiantic City and leamed he is currently working for Boeing.

Retirement Stratton Hicky reported that he has retired and is currently working at SPARTA as a principal investigator who supports Department of Defense organizations. Ironically, his office is in the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, which is approximately 100 yards from his old office in the Pentagon.

www.usiia.com Bringing die Alumni Associatdon '79 20th Reunion. L to r: Kevin Derbin, Mark Roberts, Dom Gorie, Roger Mau, Jeff Niner, yours tiuly, Ted Griffith, Kevin Boyd, Dave Bethel, Vince Bousa, Orlando Anzalotta and Rick Malone Shipmate, May 2000

Well folks, this column will be a littie short (no sandblower jokes, please!) as business travel and an empty mailbox are conspiring against me. Many of you are, no doubt, suffering from Ken Russell withdrawal, and tiiat's understandable. He's the only professional mudslinger I know diat actually produces something of value. Anyway, I look forward to hearing from a bunch of you in June!

One update from a prior column: Shipmate can now accept digital photos for printing here in the Class pages. There are some restrictions, but nothing we can't work around. So, scan those photos and send them to me direcdy! (Ed's note: See the Association Web site for information on digital photos.)

See you next month, everyone. Wiz...

Omnes Viri!

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Annual Membership: 2% Life Membership: 95%

Pres: Tim Kobosko S e c y : CDR Joseph A. Grace Jr., USNR 15 Allard Blvd. New Orieans, LA 70119 h: 504-486-9040; w: 504-539-9255 f: 504-539-9257; e: jgrace@notc.org Class Web site: http://www.USNA1980.org Throw me somethin' Mister! Tonight we are going out to the Lundi Gras parades here in New Orleans. Largest crowds in history. Lots and lots of people. It's a great time but it is certainly chaotic. We can't get down to our offices, most businesses are closed and it is almost impossible to get into a restaurant or anywhere else to have a normal life. That being said, it sure is a blast! I recommend it for anyone who hasn't been here before. Plan early and come on down next year.

We have had a lot of activity since the Class meeting in January. Kobo mobilized many of the Class and there have been a lot of people doing a lot of great things to make Homecoming a tteat for all of us. One of the most important things since the Class meeting in January that we have been doing has been directed by Lyie Burnham (bumham@shore.intercom.net) who has been a real help in getting names and addresses and email addresses for all members of the Class. He has put together an aggressive program to try and update all of the data. Special thanks to his efforts! Here are a few of his requests for information and a snapshot of some of his plans: Here is my plan for collecting email addresses: A. Received information from Alumni Association—Done.

B. Verify USNA AA information against 1980 Lucky Bag-Done.

C. Check current emails for accuracy-In progress.

D. Ask company reps to help with missing email addresses.

E. Give company reps until 15 March '00 to respond. Start searching for remaining individuals.

F. Complete search by 01 April '00.

Lyle found that there are many issues that we need to clarify as we gather info on the Class. There are Classmates who are in the 1980 Lucky Bag, but are not on the Alumni Association's Listing for our Class. We have lost track of Classmates who have mamied and changed their names. We have lost track of the families of Classmates who have died since graduation and we have others who we have just found to be "missing" from the planet.

Here are a few issues that we would like to resolve: There is a Hugh Henry (03) in the 1980 Lucky Bag, and not on the Alumni listing.

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There is a Hugh Oren (03) on the list, but not indie 19S0 Lucky Bag. The following Classmates have photographs in the Lucky Bag but are not on the Alumni Association listing of Classmates for 1980: Gregg Larson (06), David Petri (22), Gregory Ramsay (15) For family members of Classmates who have died, would you like to be included in our mailings, postings, and have your information listed on the Web site? Please let me know, jgrace@notc.org. This could include widows or widowers, parents, children or next of kin.

Paul Stroup: Dress Blue Picture, but no Company picture. There is a Paul Stroop on the Alumni Association listing who is registered, as a non-grad.

Fredrico Figari: Company picture (I forget which Company), no Dress Blue picture. Lyle believes he is from Chile.

If you are a company rep, or were a company rep, or are interested in being a company rep please contact me immediately and we'll get you involved.

Lyle has also gone through to try and match up the Classmates with last name changes (ex. marriages). However, some of the matches were guesses. Below is a list of name changes. Please verify them and let one of us know: First Last-Grad Co. Last-Now Jamesina Jimenez (15) Alter Marjorie Morley (29) Bachman-Morley Linda Bartlo (31) Botek Patricia Thudium (17) Brabaker Susan Stapler (08) Cabral Chrystal Lewis (03) Campbell Susan Presto (03) Chiaravalle Rebecca Olds (29) Craig Sharon Hanley (33) Disher Betii Leadbetter (29) Goodrich Elizabeth Durham (21) Hallinan Jennifer Smith (05) Holzapfel Barbara Morris (02) Ives Claire Sebrechts (31) Jewell Susan Keller (31) Keaney Patiicia Taylor (18) Keller Barbette Henry (24) Lowndes Robin Drace (35) Meyer Maureen Foley (28) Nunez Hugh(l) Henry (03) Oren Kathryn Karlson (30) Ozimek Lynn Ramp (22) Perry Sharon Sheffield (05) Raum Kathleen Slevin (33) Rondeau Elizabeth Belzer (30) Rowe Nancy Burke (34) SuUenger Pamela Wacek (28) Svendsen Beth Linquist (03) Titus Elizabeth Cox (17) Unger Jill Hawkins (22) Votaw Patricia Murphy (09) Wenger Janet Kotovsky (25) Zucker Lyle is doing a great job but we can use any help that anyone can provide. If you have information about any of our Classmates listed above, please contact either Lyle or me. It will really help if everyone can contact us to verify your email, address, and other info. He has done a fantastic job. Special thanks to Lyle and his family and please give us a hand! Thanks.

I received a nice note from Dan Davenport with an update: In the last Shipmate (Jan-Feb), you mentioned that we should send you our email address if we were not receiving Class info from Tim Kobosko so here it is:bddavenport@juno.com.

I must say that over the years you have done an impressive job keeping the column going and passing on info about the great Class of '80. I can't imagine what a time synch this must have been for you—on a monthly basis for most of 20 years.

Well done. I appreciate and applaud your effort.

I've been working on the Navy Staff in N81 for the past 18 months since leaving command of RAMAGE ( D D G - 6 1 ) in September '98. Going

sition. It is truly fascinating, and a bit depressing, to see the inner workings and hidden mechanisms of our Navy Headquarters. There is light at the end of the tunnel, however, as I was recently slated to take command of DesRon 24 in '01. It will be oh so good to get back to sea.

One of the highlights of working in D.C. is the unique opportunity it provides to ran across Classmates and shipmates 1 haven't seen in a long time. Looking forward to our Reunion in the fall.

Good sailing.

Another note came in out of the blue, this one from Chuck Howard (choward@wp.ncis.navy.niiI or choward@hotmail.com).

You have been doing a fantastic job with our Class column, and publishing "Zeus" Almanza's email has reminded me that I, along with many of my 22nd Co. bubbas, am long overdue to check-in. For the last four years I have been in Singapore with NCIS, covering all of Southeast Asia, including such garden spots as East Timor, and such hardship locales as Australia, Bali and Thailand. Needless to say, it has been a great time! I urge any Classmates coming through to contact me, and accommodations and plenty of cold Tiger beer are available on demand.

It has been a varied journey since the boat school; five years in the Corps, law school at University of Maryland with our esteemed Classmate Herb Frerichs, a year clerking for a federal appellate judge, three years as a prosecutor with the State's Attorney's Office in Baltimore, recall to Desert Storm with NCIS, and accepting a civilian job as an NCIS Special Agent thereafter The DAO in Singapore, CAPT Scott Douglas '70, has hosted my mediocre USNR efforts, and our Alumni throughout the region have made the entire tour very rewarding. My wife, Lori, and kids, Kathleen (7) and Thomas (5), love it here in Singapore, though we will probably be transferring back to the states (Washington, D.C.) by the end of the summer Again, thanks for all the (I assure you appreciated) hard work on the column. Regards from the Lion City.

We try and provide service where we can, so here is a plea from another Academy grad trying to locate Martin Wenzel Jr. If anyone has any data, or Marti if you read this, please contact Claudio A. Pacheco '64, cpacheco@sol.racsa.co.cr Wil Gildner sent in a short note to give me an update as to what is going on in their household: Yesterday, 4 December '99, was a great day around Boston for Navy sports.

After spending the afternoon with about 40 USNA Alumni watching Navy beat Army in football, we went to Harvard and watched Navy basketball beat Harvard in the final three seconds, 83-81. That aftemoon, the NAPS basketball team beat the Harvard JV. Go Navy'.

While on the way to the basketball game I ran into Marion and Carl Hendershot and three of their four children. It was quite the surprise as I hadn't seen Carl since sometime in 1986. They're doing great. Carl is an MD-88 captain with Delta, where he's been for over 13 years. He and I were sitting next to some Napsters during the b-ball game and told them we were NAPS '76. Only then did 1 realize that none of them had even been bom while we were at NAPS. Time flies when you're having fun. It's been awhile since I've updated. I'm in Boston as an Air Force National Security Fellow at the JFK School of Government at Harvard. So far it's been a fantastic year.

There are two other Navy grads in the same program, Kevin O'Keefe '78 and Terry Kraft '81.

Prior to this assignment, 1 commanded one of the only two B-2 stealth bomber squadrons at Whiteman AFB in Missouri. 1 stood up the squadron in January 1998 and passed it to my successor this past July. It was a privilege to be involved

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in the first-ever combat use of the B-2 which made the tour just that much more interesting.

To top it off, this past October I was notified by the Air Force of my selection to colonel.

My wife, Ann, and daughters, Paige (11), and Avery (6), are enjoying New England although it will only be for ten months. We live about 400 yards from Battle Road where the colonials kept striking the British as they were returning to Boston from Concord, so we feel that we're right in the middle of history and try to take advantage of the many opportunities to leara more.

If any is passing through the Boston area, give us a call at 781-274-8059 or email us at gildnerw@aol.com . We'd love to hear from you.

Beat Army'.

Several Classmates took the time to send in an updated email. I ' l l put it on the Web site (www.usnal980.org) as soon as I get the chance, but here they are in case anyone wants to send them a note. Robin and Mark Whitfield (mark.whitfield@prodigy.net) of 13th Company fame checked in with an updated email, as did Win Everett (weveret 1 @ san.rt.com) of 21 st Company, and Ricky Flak ( r f l a k @ s m i t h . c o m ) , Carl Hendershot (cdhendy@mediaone.net) and Tom Ryan (Tomryan80@aol.com). I'm hoping for an update for a future column from all of them.

There have been lots of questions about homecoming and the 20th Reunion. Kobo will be handling most of the amangements in Annapolis, so please give him a call about anything you might need. We will be having another Class meeting which is described later in the column.

Mark "At Altitude" Guadagnini (Guadagnini_Mark@osd.pentagon.mil) sent in the following note on how to get tickets for the Homecoming game: Classmates, for tickets to the game: 1) Call NAAA Ticket Office 410-293-2700 2) Talk with one of the NAAA representatives.

3) Tell the representative that you would like your tickets as part of Group # 302.

After a very successful Class meeting in January, our President has recommended the following (I reahze that you will read this after it takes place, but we want to keep everyone informed): I propose we get together again on Friday, 31 March '00 at 3 p.m. in the taproom of Alumni House. The topic will be Homecoming '00. Hopefully, Classmates who signed up to help with different activities can update the rest of us on where we stand. If anyone has any ideas that they want presented, let me know and we will put it on the agenda. We will publish the results of the meeting via email and probably the Web site.

Hope to see you then. Thanks for your help and pass this email on to people not on the "to" list. Kobo That's all that I have for now. I'm hoping that a few new notes come in as a result of our new Web site activity. Give me a call and check out the site.

Hope all is well with all of you. Happy Mardi Gras, and call an old friend.. .it will mean more than you realize. Life is shortâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;so live it to the fullest. As always. Beat Army, Joe

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Annual Membership: 3% Life Membership: 94%

Pres: Robert D. Ravener Jr. 190 Bennetts Farm Road, Ridgefield, CT 06877 h: 203-438-0867;w: 914-767-6127 e: THERAV5@A0L.COM Sec'y: Dave Ciccarelli 38484 Sorgum Court, Purcellville, VA 20132-3738 h: 540-882-4225; w: 703-416-0153 e: chicsan@aol.com Dantes started. The tapping was coming from behind the wall at the far end of his cell.

"Who's there?" he asked.

The tapping stopped.

"Dear God," he thought, "I've frightened whoever it is and now I shall certainly spend the rest of my days in this dungeon in utter isolation."

Three days passed and, finally, the tapping began anew. This time Dantes remained silent, as it grew closer. Each day it began shortly after the jailer delivered his morning meal and continued until just before supper Finally, after weeks of waiting, a stone in the wall began to shake with each tap and slowly became dislodged until it fell and revealed the white-bearded face of an old man.

"Who are you?" asked the man, seemingly surprised to see a face at the end of his effort."

"I am Edmond Dantes and you?"

"I'm the Abbe Faria. I must've taken a wrong turn at Avignon. No worry, though. To make this column fit, I'll tell my life story, then yours, then explain how you were falsely imprisoned. Then, before I die, I'll tell you where to excavate an immense fortune, about which only I know, so you can change identities and exact a tedious, 55-chapter revenge on those who wronged you."

Two years later, with Faria dead, Dantes was free after nanowly escaping a watery grave, having been tossed from the ramparts of the Chateau D'lf in a sack tied by his feet to a cannon ball, yet managing to free himself with a knife fashioned from a chicken bone. After hanging with smugglers in EastMed for a time, he found Faria's small, greasy islet and soon was knee deep in tech stocks. It was then that he transformed himself from an ex-grant mere mortal to the Class Sec'y of Monte Crisco or "CMC" for short, not to be confused with the Commandant of the Marine Corps, a different, but equally impressive guy.

Shortly thereafter, he hopped a steamer to Crabtown and checked into a small King George Street B&B. The innkeeper, a shady dealer from Marseilles named Caderousse, sang like a bird when shown an '81 Class ring embedded with a faux amethyst in exchange for info on the three men who'd wronged the CMC. "Oui, monsieur," I can tell you of Monsieur Dan Hudson (CPLBrokers@aoI.com) though 20 years since he last wrote. He and Anita live in Annapolis with Elizabeth (14), Christine (11) and Christopher (6). He owns an insurance brokerage firm and is CO of VP-64 in Willow Grove, PA. His P-3Cs fly counter-narcotics in the Caribbean and contributory missions in Lant and Med theaters. They detach aircraft and aircrews in operational roles an average of three months per year This year they're breaking from typical ops and detaching to WestPac. Despite the decline in ASW, their shift to littoral warfare has posed unique operational challenges. Ten years ago it was stand-off ASW with MK46 torpedoes, now it's in-your-face with Rockeye, Maverick, Harpoon and SLAM. They have reacted by retooling training to prepare to fight in a multitude of environments."

"Hmmm," hummed the CMC, "In your face.. .an interesting term. But, tell me, Caderousse, who has he seen for I've not heard of the men I seek."

The innkeeper continued, visibly uneasy at the thought of spilling so many beans.

"He sees a few other regulars including Kevin McCarthy at Chief Naval Air Reserve Force in New Orleans; Bob Filler, IBM, Jacksonville, FL; Ken Lewko, CO, Reserve ASW Training Center, NAS JRB, Willow Grove, PA; Mike Christopher, CO, VP-92, NAS, Brunswick, ME; and Jim Rodrock who, with his wife, Linda, and two kids, are opening the Great Harvest Bread Company in late spring at the comer of Melvin and Ridgely avenues. When you're in town, stop in and stock up."

Monte Crisco frowned as the tale began resembling an advertisement, but Caderousse quickly changed back to the original tune.

"Monsieur Hudson also ran into John Butala in Millington, TN. John is CO, NRD Philadelphia.

He and Mary live in Cherry Hill, NJ, with their three children."

"I have no use for this," interrapted the CMC, "Give me Hudson's contact information and the ring is yours."

"Certainly, Monsieur," sneered Caderousse, gazing hungrily at the stone, "He is at 410-757-1932 and he invites all to call if coming to town or possessed with an urge to hear about P-3s."

"I will ask of P-3s only when I have avenged myself and my poor father who starved to death rather than eat Ham Francisco whilst I rotted in the dungeon of the Chateau D'lf. Now, let me see.

Annapolis Mall has email kiosks. Perhaps my account is still active."

At the Mall, the CMC marveled at the changes.

Parking had been expanded and surrounded by alleged outlets, but there was worse. The place had gone upscale as the yacht crowd had finally beaten back the north Anne Arundel denizens whose progress south was now permanently checked at Rudy's Tavern. Thankfully, ice cold ones could still be had for less than a buck during Monday Night Football.

"Nordstram, yecchhh!" scowled the CMC, "I could have that faux fur firm with but a thousandth of my fortune. One day I shall quash their ubiquity and replace their faux marble facades with bowling alleys for spite."

But that would have to wait. Bellying up to an Intemet kiosk, Monte Crisco swiped his card and entered his brilliantly contrived password, "There," he smiled, "Traly undecipherable."

Soon, a disembodied mechanical voice said, "Welcome," with insipid fake sincerity.

"Dang," gasped the CMC, "1,981 new messages."

He wiped his brow with his gold embroidered sleeve and clicked on the first message. It was from Frank Marco: For the last two years I've been ranning the North Region for SpectraSite Communications.

We build, own and manage telecommunications facilities for the wireless marketplace. We've gone from a small start-up to a National public company. Our Febraary IPO was very successful and will enable us to continue our rapid growth. I live in Chicago and always enjoy visitors popping in. Mike Mahre, Dan Quattrini and Doug Heimbach visit frequently and occasionally, I get the surprise call, "Frank, Ted Morse here. I' m in town for a layover You wanna have dinner and a beer?" I can always be reached wireless, of course, at 312-953-1460.

"That was helpful," mused the CMC, "For Heimbach is one I seek. It was he who gave me a greasy, crisco'd wet willy just as I was about to retrieve the cap from atop the Monumont du Hemdon so long ago. The act repulsed me and

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made me release my grasp of the obelisk to clear the tainted ear. Alas. I fell and separated my shoulder whilst the perpetrator retrieved the cap and, with it, the Boards D'Or from L'Admiral du Fleet Laurance. Moreover, my bum shoulder prevented me from jumping overboard and swimming to safety whilst being taken to the dungeon of Chateau D'lf!"

But he was wasting time and consonants reminiscing and writing whilst instead of while so he pressed on and delete.

Up came, Vicky (DeFiore) and I (Tim Garrold) (nykcdr@mepcom.army.mil) don't want to be accused of waiting 20 years to write so I thought I'd get a quick note in. We've recently become New Yorkers as I have taken command of the (Joint) MEPS on Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn. For those who've not served in a Joint Command, rest assured that some long-held suspicions regarding our sister ser\'ices have been confirmed.

In trath. however, we've only been here a few months and we absolutely love the Post, the job. and the Big Apple. (And I love my predominanUy West-Pointer staff...even if it is "tough love" sometimes). One of the job's pleasures is working regularly with Ed Gehrke who will soon be CO. NRD New York. It was tough leaving Newport. RI. where we spent the last three years after I commissioned and commanded CHIEF (MCM 14), but two years at Surface Warfare School and a year at the Naval War College were all we could get. At SWOS. 1 had the pleasure of working with Dave Robertson, an old 6th Companymate and Marty Bodrog was a classmate at NWC. Our three children. Cessarina, Brianna, and Scott were probably most reluctant to leave as Vicky and I are always up for a new adventure in moving.

I'll end by saying that we will be here for the next couple of years so if your tiavels bring you through the lower end of Brooklyn, we're in the phone book.

"Hmmm," hummed the CMC, "I feel as though I've gained a clue. Cessarina sounds somewhat similar to Caesar and the alliteration leads me to believe that I must travel to Italy."

"Do you have a green ID card. Sir?" asked the pimply-faced, but powerful Airmen 3/C at Dover "What I have," answered the mysterious, aviator-shaded Admiral du Fleet, "Renders green ID cards obsolete. This new card has a photo and holographic watermark. Now is there Space A?" 'That'll be $10, Sir Proceed to Gate Four By the way, has anyone asked you to carry on luggage for them?"

"Silence, you ascotted fool! I have no stinking luggage!"

In Trento, Italy, the CMC found himself at the Men's World Powerlifting Championships where Dave Ricks was with the U.S. Team. He was stunned and amazed as Rickso won gold by squatting 694, benching 461, and deadlifting 733. Now 40, he set a Masters overall world record and reset four American Master's records.

Stopping Rickso as he left the platform, Monte Crisco inquired as to the whereabouts of one Bud Womer, the second man who had wronged him.

Rickso hadn't seen Bud in ages, but left the tournament Web site address, http://php.indiana.edu/ -gmsimmon/worldpic.html, along with several chalk marks on CMC's dress blues. He added that he'll be in Charleston until about August and then on to Yokosuka.

"But what," asked the assembled eyes, "Why does Monsieur Womer deserve such vengeance?"

"Like a madman with a masochistic mania, he twisted nipples 'til they bled, pursuing his hapless 3-0 victims for four tertor-filled years despite anguished pleas for mercy. Yes, he and a certain evil, hairless-chested bench person with a fiendish southem Mass accent, left me seamed, physically and emotionally, for the rest of my days."

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"I know whom I must seek for answers," thought the CMC as he waited in traffic near the Naples airport. "I must seek a man whose face, like a craggy rock of ages, bespeaks wisdom. He will aid me in my quest.

With that, he headed for Oceana in time to witness this seer, this man of wisdom, this walking Mount R u s h m o r e , Otto Stutz (stutzj@ sfwsl.navy.mil), assume command of Strike Fighter Weapons School, Atlantic on 22 February 2000.

There, too, he met with Dave Mutzabaugh, Dave Rickards and Bill McGuiness who, too, had sojourned from afar to bear witness.

Mutz. Otto, Dave Rickards, and Mac at Otto's COC "I haven't seen Bud in years," said Otto speaking for the rest, "Nor have I seen his Attleboro assistant although I hear they're both in SOCAL. By the way, was that alliteration?"

"No," replied the CMC, "Alliteration is repeated consonant sounds, not vowels, but many don't realize that."

Foiled again, the CMC retumed to his stronghold in the Virginia Piedmont.

"Poison," he murmured, "All good 19th Century adventure novels use poison for plot twists, but first, I must give myself ever increasing doses of this amber-colored liquid lest a large amount be fatal at some later date."

While working on his first beer, the CMC suddenly noticed two photographs lying on the credenza. He searched the faces for signs of those he sought, but, alas, he searched in vain. One picture showed three men and a woman in blue (or was it black?). He recognized the faces from his youthful days in Crabtown. They were Dan McElroy, Steve Colon, Kay Hire and Kriss Kennedy, apparently at a drill weekend at JRB Fort Worth, TX.

Fort Worth blues: Dan McElroy, Steve Colon. Kay Hire and Kriss Kennedy

"Hmmm," mused Monte Crisco, "The unii appears to be ComSeventhFlt and Brad Gawboy appears to not appear" He moved to the second picture. This time, the faces from his past were in white with a few interspersed suits. There were Gregg Dougherty, Jaime Navarro, Steve Colon, Tim Burke and Earl Hampton.

"Hmmm, again," remused the CMC, "Was not that Burke person in Chicago a moment ago?"

Then, realizing that Marco's words and the picture before him had been written and taken separately, it all made sense.

"Ah, yes," he cried triumphantly, "This was at Jaime's COC last May where he relieved Sean Murray. I'll venture that Gregg is living in Indiana while Earl is CO of a VP squadron in Hawaii, too."

He ventured correctiy.

Meanwhile, though not part of the story, Dave Gilliland could be reached at flydelta@ mediaone.net whilst Liz, Rusty and Fred Flight (flightsouth@mindspring.com) were found residing at 104 Bay View Ave., Portsmouth, RI 02871.

Meanwhile, the Pharaon had sunk near Gibraltar, Monsieur Mortel had not committed suicide nor had he gone bankrupt, Danglars was now a rich, unethical banker, Femand had married Mercedes, crossed over from Napoleon to Wellington just before Waterloo and had thus been handsomely rewarded by the King while Villefort was now a hot-shot Parisienne lawyer who'd made millions by double and triple billing clients while cheating on his wife with Madame Danglars with whom he'd fathered a son that he thought was dead only to find, years later, that the child had grown up in Italy and become a liar, a thief and a murderer.

"They shall all pay for what they did to me," vowed the CMC ranning his hands through his limitless credit and catching his breath after such a long, ran-on sentence.

Just then, a servant knocked and entered the room.

"What news have you?" asked the CMC reversing his word order "Excellent news, Excellency, of Tig Payne and his wife, Suzanne," replied the servant redundantly.

'Tig Payne...Tig Payne," stammered the CMC, "I knew that man once. He and his square-set jawhne were for a time banished to the bowels of the N8s."

"Ohhh, your Excellency," cried the servant in mock hortor, "Not the N8s."

"The very same," replied the CMC. "I was there only as a contractor, but Tig bore the full uniformed brant of that hideous fate. Pray tell where is he now?"

"In Norfolk," replied the servant, "Since August last. His address is 114 Pine Creek Drive, Hampton, VA 23669; h: 757-848-9411, w: 757-396-1112.

He commands the good ship NICHOLAS ( F F G - 4 7 ) since August 6th last and, for a time was in Extended Availability, a curious term that. He left the

Gregg Dougherty. Jaime Navarro, Steve Colon, Tim Burke and Earl Hampton HI

shipyard in December and entered the Inter-Deployment Training Cycle while working up for a May '01 deployment of which he'll get to see about half."

"This tells me nothing of substance," sighed Monte Crisco rabbing his temples with greasy fingers, "I need big news...something earth shattering. I know it's out there...that news...waiting to be heard."

"Your last line was filled with pregnant pauses," replied the servant, "Which is ironic since I was about to say that Tig and Suzanne are expecting in late July."

"Who else knows of this?" demanded the CMC. "The letter doesn't say, Excellency, but he does see a lot of Joe Murphy (just got relieved in GONZALES) and Steve Hampton (CO DEYO)."

"Is there a lot of Joe Murphy and Steve Hampton to see or is that just a figure of speech?"

"A figure of speech. Excellency, and please do not wipe your hands on the chaise. It's imported."

"Leave me," ordered Monte Crisco, "You don't have to stay and tell me his email address. It's paynet@nicholas.navy.mil."

Sensing that the column was going nowhere fast, the CMC opted for a disguise since such things always keep Europhile yuppie suburbanites tuned to PBS on Sunday nights. Dressed as a priest, he began calling himself the Abbe Bussoni, a leading authority on European nobility and fortunes. Fortunately for the column, it was not long before he crossed paths with one Mike J o h n s o n (mikej @blazenet.net), who told him that it seemed Shipmate had finally caught up with him after all these years.

Mike added, After graduation, my bride and I hung around USNA for six months then I attended various schools before winding up as AWEPS on GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER. Then Damneck and Guided Missile School, Panama City, for Diving and Salvage Officers School, WEPS on TECUMSEH, Monterey, followed by an OIC position on, at that time, the world's deepest diving manned submersible. SEA CLIFF in San Diego. Then back to Norfolk as a LantFlt command center CDO followed by early retirement in September 1998 and a move to York, PA, where I'm an engineer for Penn Air and Hydraulics working in the Baltimore/Hartford county area. Our son, Ryan, will be 15 shortly. He's on the varsity golf and ninthgrade basketball teams. Cheryl is pursuing a teacher's certificate which she hopes to trade for an elementary school classroom next year We have a new home, are settied and invite all to look us up. Always a light on and an empty bed made for guests. We've kept in touch with Mike McLaughlin over the years and he and his family are doing well.

"Rats," thought the faux cleric, "Again, interesting, but it serves not my purpose."

"And what is your purpose?" asked the assembled eyes.

'To avenge myself on the most heinous of the three, a man whose actions, words and deeds cast a pall on my mortal existence for so many years."

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"Wow," said the eyes, "He musta been a pretty bad dude, dude."

"He was," rephed Crisco, "And don't call me dude."

"Whatever."

He looked around for the Fleet Home Town News Center News Releases that came his way every so often, but the eyes had them.

"Take your eyes off of my news releases," demanded the CMC in a pathetic attempt at humor and the releases were released. He noted that such news was usually dated by four to six months prior to publication date and wondered why the FHTNC was not with the e-times. Still, 4 November 1999, Tom Gurney, 6-month MED and Arabian Gulf deployment in JOHN F KENNEDY, home ported in Mayport, FL. 30 July 1999, Gerry Hueber, 6month WestPac, 10, Arabian Gulf deployment in STETHAM as part of Middle East Force 99-2.

Homeported in San Diego, STETHAM departed on its maiden deployment in April to support U.N. sanctions levied against Iraq after the 1991 Gulf War They were short. They were to the point. There were only two of them and they were done.

"But, I have not fulfilled my vow of vengeance," cried the CMC. "This is not a literary publication," rephed the editor, "And besides, you're a week past your deadline."

"Here," replied Monte Crisco, "Take this unbelievably priceless, oversized emerald that somehow got hollowed out into this nifty snuffbox without breaking into a bazillion pieces and don't banish me to the land of blank columns."

"Thanks," said the editor, "But end it now.

You're almost up to the word quota."

"Alas, you're right," said the CMC, "And, trath be told, fate itself will avenge me on my third tormentor. Electric Joe." "Electric Joe!" cried a choras of eyes not unlike the chorus in an ancient Greek stage production, you know, where they get to say what everyone's thinking.

"How did he wrong you, dude?"

"First," screamed the CMC, "Don't call me dude, and I'll tell you. For years we golfed together on govemment time and, while pretending encouragement, he'd pause as I addressed the ball and vindictively remind me of..."

"Of what?"

"Of the creek in front of the tee."

"Not that!"

"Yes!" "And how are you avenged, pray tell?"

"Simply by his having two fair daughters whom he loves beyond measure. Anon, they will be teenagers and will date greasy, wretched, young boys whose desires mirtor his own of years past when hips were hugged and hair was long. Lo, one night in the not-too distant future, creatures such as these will mount his steps and ask for his daughters. He will watch as they drive their parents' SUVs away from his house to a movie or some equally convenient faux destination and he will know what evil lurks in their minds because his is still that of one and, yea, he will know that his goose is cooked and will wail and gnash his teeth and I shall be avenged!"

"But, must it all end so soon and so sadly?"

"Perhaps not," replied Monte Crisco with thoughts of a sequel. "Why not ask Valentine and Maximilian who are walking along the beach at the end of Chapter 73."

"Who, us?" asked Valentine.

"Yes," pined the eyes, "Must it end here?"

"Remember what the Count told us," replied Max, "Wait...and hope."

With apologies to Monsieur Dumas, Au revoir, later, Chic

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Pres: Maj T. Gordon Thomson, USAFR e: tgthomson@compuserve.com; h: 804-360-8448 Vice President: Matt Moury e:MATTHEWM@ DNFSB.GOV; h: 410-263-7640 Treas: CDR Terry Benedict e: SP273@SPHQ.SSPNAVY.MIL h: 703-913-7183; w: 703-607-1036 Business Sec'y: Dan Proulx e: proulx@nadn.navy.mil@ h: 410-280-5282; w: 410-293-6884 Cort Sec'y: LCDR Greg Eisman 2721 Buckhom Oaks Drive, Vahico, FL 33594-4202 e: Eisman82@aol.com; h: 813-655-9141 Hello, Class! Things here in our Class column are temporarily changing. As I've mentioned before, I am PCSing to Rota, Spain. In fact, as you read this I've detached from Special Ops Command and going through legal school and PXO school in Newport. Until I get established in Spain, our Web master himself, John Fernandes, will assume my role as Shipmate secretary. Email him all updates at post@usna82.org until further notice. John has helped me this month with a bunch of updates, so let's get rolling.

Ray Robichaud is teaching at USNA with his beautiful wife, Cindy, and their three adorable children, Andrew, Eric and James. The three boys are all big time swimmers. Ray and family have orders to NRL at Stennis Space Center in Mississippi this Summer John Viniotis is teaching Weapons (that sounds dangerous for John!) at USNA. He is married to Hallee and they have two daughters in kindergarten, Lexee and Laynee. Ward Carroll is also at the boat school heading up the Company Officer Masters Program. He is there with wife, Carrie, and two boys, Hunton (9), Reid (6). Kendall Miller is assistant division director for Math and Science at USNA. He is there with his wife, Jean, who works in the public works department and they have four children ages 7,9, 11 and 13. Dave Spoerl teaches math and has accepted a position as a Permanent Military Professor He will be off to NFS this summer for his Ph.D. Wife, Margaret, is an RN, and they have two children, Doug (13 and a huge linebacker in football) and Ashley (13). Donna Sengelaub is teaching oceanography with husband, Hank, who is an Army Intel officer They have two kids, Brian and Krista. Tom Logue, his wife, Patti, and son, Thomas (4), are also at USNA. Tom is teaching math and is doing a two-year activation from the Reserve. His real job is with the National Institute of Standards and Technology doing research on Real-Time Java.

Lastly, Archer Wright is in the area with his wife, Laura Jane, and their four children, Haley, Will, Emma and Kate. Archer is on his way to Bahrain in August. Attached is a picture of some of the aforementioned people. Thanks for the updates, Raybo!

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Fred Lopez (fijalopez@axs2k.net) from "Hard Core 24" wrote in to say hello. Fred left the Navy in 1987 and currently works for Michelin Tires in Lexington, SC. He is married to Jacqui, and they have two giris, Jesse (13) and Ashley (11). Don Clements is now living outside of Dallas and flies for American Airlines. Ron Horton wrote in and is currendy die CO of VFA-192, "The Worid Famous Golden Dragons," an FA-18 squadron on board KITTY HAWK forward deployed to Yokosuka, Japan. He has been there since December '98 (his second tour to Japan). He's been married for ten years to wife. Terayo, and they have two great kids.

Brandon (5) and Rachel (2). Ron's heard from Tom Mascolo. Tommy is the XO of an EA-6B squadron out of Whidbey Island.

F r a n k Koye (email is koye@starpower.net) wrote in to announce that the stork landed at the Koye's home in Washington, D . C ! Frank and his wife, Ina, are now the proud parents of a beautiful baby girl. Laura was bom 8 December and weighed in at 6 pounds 14 ounces. Ina is an intemational human rights lawyer, and was busy working for the Intemational Rescue Committee getting refugees from Kosovo settled in D.C. Frank has been serving on active duty on orders at NSA where he "played a critical role in providing time-sensitive, cracial intelligence support to theater and national level consumers involved in an intemational crisis." Wow! Jennifer (Sullivan) Nash wrote in as well. If you don't remember seeing her in the Lucky Bag, here's why: she was one of the unlucky few who, for whatever reason, were accidentally left out of the Lucky Bag and are part of an addendum.

Jennifer left active duty in '87 after SOSUS tours in Bermuda and Norfolk. She has been married to her husband. Bill, since '84 and they now have three sons: Alex (bom in '87), Brian ('90), and Jeremiah ('93). They live in Smithfield, VA, and Jennifer works for Uncle Sam as a special security officer at the Joint Warfighting Center in Suffolk, VA. She is still a drilling Reservist and is currently assigned as an intel officer in the Fleet Information Warfare Center (FTWC) unit in Norfolk.

G e o r g e C h a m b e r l a i n checks in with the following: I am currently the XO of HS-3, an HS squadron out of NAS Jacksonville, FL. We deploy with CVW-8 and have recently moved from THEODORE ROOSEVELT (CVN-71) to ENTERPRISE (CVN-65).

They are a great ship to work with and we're looking forward to the '01 deployment with ENTERPRISE. I will be taking command of HS-3 on 30 March, who would have believed it way back when? It's a great feeling, to see all the years of preparation and working toward this goal finally coming to fraition. HS-3 is a great squadron, we retumed from a Med/Arabian Gulf deployment in September 1999. We won the ComHSWingLant Maintenance Award for both halves of 1999, the CVW-8 Golden Wrench Award and now the CNAL Battle "E." I see Dennis Sinnett around Jax, he is the XO of a VP outfit here. We attended the command legal course together Vinny Lamolinara just took over command of HS-5, they deploy today on DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER ( C V N 69). Andy Macyko

is also in Jax, serving as XO of HS-7.

Tom Cosgrove wrote in with an update: I don't think I've ever written to Shipmate directly (it's always been my better half, Cindy) so it must mean I am getting to be one of those "Alumni." You know, those former USNAers that you always stared at while eating in Bancroft Hall or thanked for the extra funds for the wardroom TV. Anyway, hello from Pittsburgh, PA, where I work at the Beaver Valley Power Station for First Energy as an outage manager Cindy and our four kids really enjoy it here as different as it is from our former abode in Tavemier FL (the "Keys" as they're affectionately known). Our email ad-

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â&#x20AC;˘82ers in Annapolis dress is cosfam@bellatlantic.net. Cindy, the kids and 1 visited Russ Leuhrsen and family this past summer We've stayed in touch by phone and mail over the years, but it was sure great to catch up in person. Now that we're back in the Northeast we do expect to meet up with a lot more ' 82ers and will probably see ya at a Navy meet, match or game. Go Navy!

Mike Keating contacted me and still lives in the Baltimore area. He left Pepsi and started his own company working as a project manager and installation coordinator within the manufacturing industry. Mike saw M a r k Russell briefly several months back at the local bowling alley with his son. Jerry McEnerney is a supply officer, still active duty stationed up in Mechanicsburg, PA. He's married to Robin Well, who was also a supply officer, and is now a Reservist. They have three kids, Brendan (11), Clare (9), and Shea (6).

Chris Walley (cjwlaw@downeast.net) has this update: I've been hiding under a rock in Maine for the last nine years; left active duty in '88 to do law school; graduated in '91 and moved to Ellsworth, ME, which is just outside Bar Harbor No beltway traffic jams (in fact, I walk to work!). Started drilling Reserve straight from active duty; picked up CDR in '98. I think there's three whole 0-5 billets left in Maine and that completely worthless screening board isn't letting me travel! I've got a solo practice with two paralegals. My Web page is hnp://www.whalleylaw.com. Deb and I are screaming up on our 17th anniversary.

Maureen is 13; Michael is 7; Patrick is 3; and Brian just tumed 1.1 heard from Ted Stank, he's at Michigan State University. Pass the word that if anyone gets to Maine, the welcome mat is out (assuming we haven't used up spare room with number five by then. Life is good, simple and a lot of work! Solo practice out here in the hinterlands makes me wish for active duty! Hope to hear from some of you. Maybe (after 18 years!)

I'll even make Shipmate, eh?

Looks like you made it in Shipmate, Chris.

Thanks for the update.

More tidbits of information: Dom Dixon's current email is inteldude@hotmail.com. Steve Sunseri got his M.B.A. while in the fleet and now works as a beancounter at Exxon Mobil. He and his family now live in Midlothian, VA. Lloyd Edgerly and his family reside in the D.C. metro area.

Craig Uffman (craiguffman@home.com) and his wife live in Baton Rouge, LA. They have three children (Andrew (14), Callie (8), and Emilie (2)).

After leaving the submarine force, he joined a small software company and worked out of his garage in the Richmond area. Now he's the president/COO and his company is growing at a 60 percent rate, with about 85 employees. Most of Criag's time is

spent coaching girls Softball, ranning road races, and working with the Boy Scouts. Phil Tissue recently had an article published in Proceedings.

J.J. Kane is still in the Marine Corps and serving at MCAS, Cherty PL, NC. He's finishing up his last few months as XO of 2nd Low Altitude Air Defense (LAAD) Battalion, and will soon be going up to the Group (Regiment) to be the S-3.

IVIitch Taylor writes in and provides the following: After graduation, 1 did the pilot thing and ended up flying the EP-3 out of Guam. 1 went back to Pensacola to instract and then got out of the Navy in 1989. Ever since, 1 have been flying with Delta Air Lines based out of Atianta. There are quite a few '82 bubbas ranning around the pilot lounge.

During Navy flight training I married this really neat girl that 1 met at McGuire's Irish Pub. That was back in July '83. She's still putting up with me today! I still do the Reserve thing via correspondence courses. If anybody needs some good courses for "review" let me know and I'll pass them on. I hate to admit this, but I haven't kept in touch with anyone after graduation.

Tim W a t k i n s (TLWATKINS@msn.com), a neighbor of mine in Tampa, FL, is doing well after leaving our neighborhood. The Watkins family is now living in Chesapeake, VA, and really enjoying life. Their third child, Jack, was bom on 19 November and is a real joy. Daughter, Jordan, just tumed 6. Their son, Connor, will be 5 in April.

Linda has hung up her nurses' stethescope, at least for a few years, to be a full-time (more like overtime) mom. As for Tim, after years as a West Coast H-46 driver, he's doing his XO/CO ride in H-3s at HC-2 and having a fabulous time.

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Schuiz, adios to the Mars Polar Lander and M r Forbes (any connection?), and another multimillionaire's bogus televised wedding to a bogus "Persian G u l f vet. Who said we are at the end of history? You couldn't make this stuff up if you tried. Now on to some real Class Act news.

First on this month's to-do list is another housekeeping item: in order to complicate Class Act correspondence (reverse psychology at work), please submit all email to me at richard.woodford@ abanet.org. Heck, I'll take news from any of the other email accounts tooâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in fact, here's yet one more address to reach me: gonavy83@erols.com.

For photos or other hard-copy items, please use the mailing address listed above, and please use it soon: the mailbag has been depleted. Don't you have some photos you've been meaning to send in? Who wants their smiling face on the cover of the Rolling Stone when you are guaranteed a place in this column? Do you notice that there aren't any photos in this month's column? Get the hint?

The results of the first '"83 Wave Pulse" through the Internet

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Ed Delaney, Dennis O'Meara, Perry Bingham Cliff Atmore sent in a picture from his recent wedding. For the last 15 years he's lived in San Diego. After getting out of the Navy in 1992, went to work for Southwest Airlines. On 24 October 1999, he married the former Karla Bransen.' 82ers in attendance that day were Bob Reifsnyder, Tom Page, William Smith, Mike Cochrane, Jimmy Carroll and Ted Varner. Also here is a picture of Ed Delaney, Dennis O ' M e a r a and Perry Bingham. All three will be assuming command of ships this summer.

A few more last-minute updates. Tom "Scuch" Scuccimarra works for Scandia Intl. doing financial work. Dave Fuson is stationed on the Cartier Group Five staff forward deployed onboard KITTY HAWK in Yokosuka, Japan.

That's it for now. Great job on all the inputs.

Again, send your updates to John until you read in this column that I've got my head above water in Rota. Adios! Greg

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Pres: CDR James H. Flatley IV, USN 8506 Crowley Place, Alexandria, VA 22308-1822 e: CGFLATS@aol.com Sec'y: LCDR Richard F. Woodford Jr., USNR 7329 Crestieigh Circle, Alexandria, VA 22315 h: 703-313-4170; w: 202-653-7188 e: (h) richard.woodford@abanet.org Class Web site: http://class-act-usna83.org Welcome aboard. Class Actors of '83, Ex-YP File fans, and Class Act groupies. What a wild spring thus far: Farewell "Peanuts" and Charles

Here is a little background to this Ex-YP file: it was early Febraary 2000 and I had just submitted the April Shipmate column. For my first time as Class Act Secretary, I was out of "news" no emails, no phone calls, no mail, no fax, no "run-in's" on the street, nothing, nada. Previously I had always had something in "standby" so that when one column was "in the bag," the first lines of the next column were already forming. Not so this time. A few days in Febraary passed and.. .nothing except some jokes. Facing the prospect of having to fabricate an entire column of "news," I started to ponder whom I could pick on and not get nailed for libel. Then one day in the shower (remember, it is my "ideas generator") I had a flashback to USNA and Second Class "wires" lab. While remembering those oscilloscopes and wave generators, I got the idea to try and generate some "feedback" based on a single un-amplified "wave pulse" through the Intemet. In other words, I'd ping a single short email using the old '83 class list, and see who or what "waved" back. There were a lot of "undeliverable ertor messages" but it did produce some positive results. Credit goes to Bob Moran (bob_moran@merck.com; 908-423-7022, f: 908-735-1242), past secretary for the first response and for "amplifying" and rebroadcasting the signal throughout the 29th Company intranet.

Bob wrote: Rich, great job on the articles in Shipmate'.

We've been having a lively email exchange for quite awhile. We have a 29th Company Web site with email addresses, biographies, and photos at: http://www.cgscorp.com/usna/. We're trying to track down email addresses for these 29ers: Leonard Bumbaca, Jim Coles, Steve Culpepper, Lindsay Dibler, Mike LaFrenierre, Brian Larson, and Hank Miranda. Any help would be greatiy appreciated!

Well folks, if you have any contact with these 29th Company "resistors," please have the capacity to enlighten us with their current email addresses. Thanks Bob for the assistance in getting this column synchronized.

Dan Struble is now the Vice President of the Naval Academy Foundation (replacing the Fund).

He's also a drilling reservist with the Naval Historical Center, Washington, D.C. By the way, our class is still accepting donations for the Soccer Stadium project. I'm sure that Dan will cheerfully accept your email (or e-commerce) at dan.struble@usna.com.

From the Tube, 20/20, Air date 2-23-2000 Mike Boehle and family were featured on the ABC news show "20/20" during a segment on cyber-crimes. In case you missed it, Mike's family is doing well now, unfortunately they are going

through quite an ordeal because of a cyber-criminal, a former neighbor who posted some obscene and criminal stuff, making it look like it was about Mike's daughter. Mike's reporting that he went back to grad school and has completed about 80 percent of the work needed for a master's in electrical engineering. Maybe Mike will enjoy a littie irony if the civil damages lawsuit against the cyberperpetrator ends up awarding a judgment that will pay off his kid's college tuition? I hope so. The email address is mboehle@jjc.cc.iI.us if you want to get hold of future MSEE Mike Boehle. Good luck crossing that Wheatstone Bridge, Mike.

From the High Seas Last month I praised the Surface Wartior community in supporting the column. Equity demands that I spend as much time under the water as on it, so this month, sound the diving alarm as we take her down to periscope depth.

Contact, bearing 183 degrees from Steve Marr (smanTobin@msn.com): Rich, got your message at work. 1 am currently working in D.C. as the submarine officer community manager Not much longer in this area. I detach in June and move the family (wife, Robin, and kids, Kristin (15), Meghan (13), and Ryan (11)) to San Diego. I start the PCO pipeline in July and will eventually take command of SALT LAKE CITY in April 2001. In my PCO class will be other USNA 1983 guys: Mike Poirier (SSN in New London), Jeff Kerr (SSN NLON), Jim Kuzma (SSBN Kings Bay). While TAD last week in San Diego I ran into Chip Walter. He is in the PCO pipeline and will report to VP-1 (Whidbey Island) as XO very soon. Also I work very closely with Mark Olson who is the submarine XO detailer in Millington, TN. Mark will be relieved in August and will start the PCO pipeline in September 2000. Rumor has it he wants to command an SSBN out of Bangor Need to ran, have a great day.

Contact, bearing 083 degrees from Mark Hagerott: Just writing back...Mark Hagerott, stationed at the Pentagon on the Joint Staff. Married, three children. Going to command in Spring 2001.

Appreciate you pulling everything together for the class. All the best.

New Contacts, multiple bearings, from three guys named "Dave": Dave Bartholomew in the pipeline for command of HARTFORD SSN-768 out of Groton, CT, in November 2000.

David Waugh, currently the Executive Officer of the Trident Training Facility in King's Bay, GA. And an air contact: Dave Dober (16th Co) in his command tour in the F/A-18 community out in San Joaquin Valley, CA. More From Under the Sea? NO, but from a real Deep Creek. From Doc Saba: The brewery and restaurant are doing great.

Check the Web site because we have a lot of festivals coming up in the next few months in the Baltimore and D.C. area and we will be serving our beers. We should be in Riordan's and making the house beer for Galway Bay in Annapolis by the time you read this. Demand it if you are there. The new 6,000-square-foot restaurant and brewery will open the end of May. Keep yourself posted at our Web site, http://www. deepcreekbrewing.com.

Thanks, Doc, and we will be getting out some plans for at least one fall '83 Tailgater later this summer.

Who wants to be an Intemet Multi-Millionaire?

Turk Powell has recently established an online company in Annapolis. Check out this internet service provider at www.alwaysonline.net. Turk has an office view of the docks and yachts downtown.

As the 20th Reunion gets closer, Turk has offered to do a turnover of his notes and "lessons leamed" to those interested in helping to set up the next gathering. Stay tuned on what develops here. Any volunteers for a 20th Reunion coordinator?

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Today the Raiders, Tomorrow the Super Bowl?

Chuck Bresnahan was named the defensive coordinator for the Oakland Raiders in January.

Congratulations Chuck on this promotion. You may remember that Chuck started as an USNA coaching assistant in 1983. He followed his active duty commitment with coaching Navy receivers in 1986-87, and later as an assistant at Georgia Tech from '88-'91 and Maine '92-'93. He then went to the NFL in Cleveland '94-'95, then on to Indianapohs '96-'97, and the Raiders. Raiders Head Coach Jon Graden said, "Chuck Bresnahan is a guy I have a lot of respect for He is a tremendous talent. A lot of people have been interested in him since he's been with the Raiders...I want him to be a big part of Oakland Raider football for this year and for years to come." Way to go Chuck, and good luck this year.

If you build it, they will come to the Blue and Gold Here's an intriguing problem, identified by Craig Walker: Here is a little tidbit for you from Fort Wayne, IN. I ran into Gordon Haines (17) last month.

He and his family are living in Granger, IN, near South Bend. Gordon is working for Proctor & Gamble as the Operations Manager at a juice factory in Plymouth, IN. I also met Chris Anderson '92 who works for GE in the same building as me. Chris is working in materials management at a transformer manufacturing plant.

I recently became involved in the Naval Academy Information, a.k.a. the Blue and Gold Officer (BGO) program. I was surprised to find many of the BGOs are not USNA graduates. We need to have a better showing! Blue and Gold Officers serve as the eyes and ears of the Candidate Guidance Office. The primary responsibility of a BGO is to interview prospective candidates and answer their questions. They also help raise public awareness of USNA at public events such as high school college nights and local Congressional service academy seminars. For those of us who made the choice to leave active duty, the BGO program is an ideal way to support our Classmates still serving. If we can identify and assist the best possible candidates for USNA, we can help those commanding ships; submarines, squadrons, and Marine units see a steady flow of quality junior officers. I encourage the entire class to become engaged in this program. You can join by contacting the BGO Area Coordinator listed in the Catalog for your state, or by calling the Candidate Guidance Office.

I may be a bit zealous here at the outset about this Blue and Gold Officer thing, but I have this vision of the Class rallying around it and becoming the premier class for the NAIP (Naval Academy Information Program). I was appalled to find out ALL die Blue and Gold Officers in Indiana I have met so far are not USNA grads. And its not because there are no grads in Indiana. We just haven't signed up for the task. We've been allowing others to carry the load for us. Do you suppose we could get the Class fired up?

BTW. If the Alumni Association directory is correct, Gil Mayo lives here in Fort Wayne. I have never tried to call him, but I may try to recrait him into BGO. Have you heard anything from the famous Brandt Moran? I last saw him in 1997 when he was preparing to move to Boston because his new wife was transferred there.

Contact info: Craig Walker Centerpiece Deployment Leader GE Industrial Systems, 1635 Broadway, Fort Wayne, IN 46801; 219-439-3811/ 8*380-3811.

There you have it, thanks to Craig for pointing out this problem and the solution.

If you aren't fast enough, I will run into you at the delicatessen Late one Saturday aftemoon, I ran into Kevin Zumbar (4th Co), at the Fort Belvoir commissary.

Kevin has just finished up a tour as a military aide in the Senate and is curtently awaiting entrance into the command pipeline, ultimately headed for

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a Trident sub in Kings Bay. I recognized him as Shipmate material immediately. We caught up on a few of the comings and goings of Classmates in and around the Pentagon. As I said before, it is only a matter of time before I will cross your path too.

"Shippeemate," isn't like Coffeemate, is it?

Previously on the Ex-YP files, Patty (Mike Shippee's better half), said that all the extra coverage was giving her sisters and USNA friends ammunition to tease her Ok, so I'm dumping fuel on that fire with this totally gratuitous repetition of the term "Shippeemate." Hey, if you (yes, you Shippee in-laws/outlaws reading this) sent me your stuff, like Patty does, maybe we would dream up a new name to honor you. Send me your stuff, it will appear here, and I'll be gentle in my remarks about you and yours. What, no takers? Please don't make me make-up stuff. Better yet, I'll use more of the dirt I get from Patty.

A quick plug for an '83 Football Tailgater, the quote, and that's all folks!

As if I already haven't given you enough to think on this month, the 2000 Army-Navy game (last game of the 20th century, whatever) will be played in Baltimore. Yes, Ballmer, the Charm City. It's the first time in 50 years that it will be held this close to USNA—and you can bet that seats will be at a premium. I can only hope that Philadelphia will replace Veterans' Stadium before it is too late.

If you're interested in getting tickets to this year's game, log on to www.usna.com to get more information.

AU those who are planning on going to The Game, let's gather for an '83 tailgater this year.

Those who are serious about this can send me an email with the subject line: "83 Baltimore Bash."

Don't waste time—send the email no later than 10 June (right now!). If there is enough interest generated, I will set something up and report on it in the October 2000 Column. See you then and there.

Also, all those who are headed to the Navy-Notre Dame game this year in Orlando, FL (14 October 2000)—let's try to get some '83 Class Act presence at both of these football events. If you go to the game, dig out your "83 A Class Act" football Jersey and look for other Classmates at the game.

Get to know someone new. Email or call me, if you are interested in hosting/setting up a football event, even if you are "out of town" other Classmates may be closer to you than you realize. Who knows who else may be living in your town?

"The Ideal never comes. Today is ideal for him who makes it so." -Horatio W. Dresser Be good to yourselves. Make it so.

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Pres: CDR Steven G. Young, USNR c/o Legg Mason, 600 Washington Ave. Towson, MD 21204; w: 800-368-2558 e: SYoung@LeggMason.com Sec'y: Robin Franke 304 Dreams Landing Way, Annapolis, MD 21401 h: 410-573-9420; cell: 410-991-6642 e: refranke@mindspring.com Sec'y: Karen (Malloy) Halverson PSC 450 BOX 487 APO AP 96206-0487 commercial: 011 822 7916 8342; DSN: (Korea) 736-8342; e: dkhalverso@aol.com Class Web site: www.usna84.com From Korea Greetings! I got an email from Tom H o m and Virginia "VA" (Forehand) Horn (TOMANDVA@ aol.com) from Alabama where they relocated just

before Christmas. Tom is enjoying his new position as plant manger for Navistar's new plant whiuh will produce the small diesel engine for the Ford Expedition and the F150 Pickup trucks. Tom, I am curious, however, what could possibly be small on a Ford Expedition? My guess is that the diesel engine is used to power the windows or the door locks. VA keeps busy as a full-time homemaker and kindly answers all my emails to keep me company.

Since I have already exploited everyone I ever even casually met at USNA by writing about them in our first few articles, I guess I should exploit myself as well and write a little something about me.

I got out under the VSI program in 1994 (which essentially means I can still be recalled as a 65year-old LCDR during the next big one) and have since followed my husband around from one Army base to another Our current assignment has us in Korea where my husband is in command of the artillery brigade for the 2nd Infantry Division. The way it works here is that the 2ID soldiers live up north near the bad guys and the families live in Seoul. I spend my days thinking up amusing anecdotes for this article, caring for our two daughters, Anna (7) and Ellie (5), and trying not to get us killed or starting an intemational incident whenever I drive in the city.

As improbable as this may sound, I have already had a visit from a Classmate here. Kevin Monahan was here back in Febraary for a business trip and was able to spend a few hours with us over dinner, drinks, and a frantic and unbelievably cold shopping trip to the lovely hamlet of Itaewon. Remember in the old M*A*S*H shows where in the winter everyone stands around burning 55 gallon drams? It Still Happens Here] In fact, I could use one in my living room right now as I write this. As usual, we enjoyed retelling the old stories of people we knew at school so if any of you experienced that buming ear sensation a couple of months back, you now know why.

Hi there folks. It's that time once again. The promotion list is out and we congratulate those moving on to silver oak leaves. On the cument list we have: Larty Creevy, Lowell Crow, Tito Dua, Bradley Dean Martin, David Allen Schnell, Mike Strano, Anthony Wayne Swain, and Robt Allen Stubblefield. Congratulations one and all. There may be more and if I've missed you, sorry. I am waiting on my database from the Alumni Association to pick out the rest of the names.

If you live in the Washington-Annapolis area, you may have read about Jeff Amerine, vice president at Danet Strategic Consulting. The Washington Business Journal reports that Danet provides access to funding, tech solutions and strategies for high tech companies looking to expand. If you're curtently sitting on a great idea and need a couple of hundred million in seed money, Jeff is your man.

Danet is a merchant consulting group based in Annapolis and owned by Deutsche Telekom.

That's it for this month. We've had a dry spell here on the photographs folks, so let's try to get a bunch for the next issue. Send them to me to ensure timely publication. Please do not send me any photos electronically. I have no way of previewing what is on my server and I end up downloading your file for 15 minutes trying to get the rest of my mail. Send me a floppy if you are so inclined to do the digital thing. We'll see ya'll next time.

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Pres: Daniel H. White e: dhwhite@cablespeed.com Sec'y: Paul Costello 4705 Grainger Trail, Ft. Worth, TX 76137 p: 817-485-8825; e: paulandkathie@compuserve.com Class Web site: www.usna86.org It's time for another round of the exciting goings of the Class of '86. Before we get into the meat of the column, I would like to thank all of you who have responded to our call to resurtect this column. The cards and emails mean a lot, especially when it is 2 a.m. and I am ranning out of inspiration. If you have a moment (and a computer), please send me a sentence or two so that I can verify that you are still breathing. If you are still computer illiterate, then you have my envy. Please send a card, letter or picture before the postal rates go up. Now on with the news.

Our Class Web site is up and ranning! Right now it is little more than a home page, but hopefully by the time you read this we will have established an accurate Class directory and some worthwhile links. If you have a personal homepage and would like it to be linked to our Class Web page let me know. This page has the potential to create a cyber "Bancroft Hall" where you don't have to make chow calls and make your bed every moming. Passing on real-time information to our Classmates about change of addresses, change of commands, births, illnesses and deaths could really increase the sense of community within our Class. As previously mentioned, the Web page will also catalog our Class gedunk, which I hope to have ready by the time this column is published. Please check out www.USNA86.org and let us know your thoughts on how we can improve our page. I would be remiss if I didn't mention the contributions of Karl Beckett for his computer expertise and Suntek for providing a large amount of valuable server space.

Dan White wanted to pass on that we can expect another round of donation calls for the Alumni Association in the near future. These calls will be preceded by an informational letter from Dan detailing how exactiy these donations will be spent.

Anne (Groves) Hammond (Bahammond速 aol.com) was kind enough to compile an extensive list of '86ers with whom she has been in contact. Reading it brought back a lot of memories and shows the phenomenal progress our Classmates have made in their naval and professional careers. Here goes:

Anne (Groves) Hammond and Chris (Lombardi) Buswell at Hearst Castle

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Bill and Anne (Groves) Hammond schussing the Siertas Since 1 have not written in a long time (can't remember when the last time was that I wrote in to the column), 1 guess 1 will update all the news on me since graduation.

After graduation in 1986, 1 was stationed in San Diego for four years, then in Norfolk for four years, before being assigned to Navy Recruiting District, Albuquerque, NM, where I spent four years in the desert southwest. Since January 1999.

I have been in Monterey at the Naval Postgraduate School. 1 graduate in June 2000 and have orders to be XO at Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, White Sands, NM. Hard to believe I will be spending at least six years of my Navy career in New Mexico. My husband. Bill, and 1 have three children, Blair (7), Meryl (4), and Will (2).

Also here at NPS, 1 have run into: Mike Giauque (who graduated in June 1999 and transferred to Pt. Hueneme); Tom Bruce (curtently in a NSA curticulum); Bill Sherer (who graduated in December 1999) and Ellen Roberts (who also graduated in June 1999 and transferted to SPAWAR in San Diego). Trish Reeves was here (she is out of the Navy, but was here while her husband was going through school). I also ran

into Kent Faro (who was taking Spanish at the Defense Language Institute) before he transferred to Spain with his family. He and his wife have a daughter, who was bom in January 1999.

Others here at NPS include Alison (Swedean) Hernandez and she writes: We arrived at Naval Postgraduate School in Febraary '99. My husband, Ernie Hernandez '85 is in the Information Technology Curriculum and I'm in Operations Analysis. Our son, David, just turned 5 and our daughter, Rachel, was bom here in Monterey on 29 July 1999. School is challenging at times, but we are enjoying being together We don't know where we'll be going to next. Hopefully we'll know in the next six months or so.

Eric Chase writes: I graduate in March 2000. I'll be going to NavAirSysCom. I've kept busy at Monterey by building an airplane messing around with my 6and 2-year-old boys. Other 26th Company guys who are or were recently here include: Pat Hall, now at the A AAV program office in Woodbridge, VA, and Scott Langley, currently in the Information Systems Curriculum. I routinely keep up with Donnie Bouchard who lives in Wheaton, MD, and does consulting work, mostly at NavAir. Gordon Oliver writes: Greetings everyone. Sandee, Meredith (7) and I have been in Monterey since June '99 following a DH tour with VFA-147 in LEMOORE. Currentiy in the Systems Engineering and Integration Curriculum. Obviously, I did not remember that anything that says engineering equates to an instant D on my transcript. It is much better this time around. We leave here in March 2001 and look forward to attending the 15 year Reunion.

I also keep in touch with Chris (Lombardi) Buswell and her two kids (Brian and Kaitlyn) who live in Fort Leavenworth, KS, while Chris attends the Army Command and Staff College.

They came to Monterey in December and we had a great visit.

Nan Russell has been living in New Zealand for ten years now, and has worked at Connetics for nearly seven of them. Connetics is involved in the utility industry there, with their attention focused on electricity, gas and telecommunications/cable television system installation and maintenance. She is the supply and distribution manager Nan lives with her partner, Mary, and their three children.

Bill James got married in June of '98 in the USNA Chapel. He and his wife, Rosemary live in New York City where Bill works as a trader and Rosemary works as a research nurse.

Larry Maye writes: Since leaving the Marine Corps in 1995,1 have stayed in the logistics arena and I am now working at Motorola in Harvard, IL. My wife, Naomi, and 1 have a wonderful son, named Michael who just turned two on 5 February 2000. My son, Lawrence, recently took the SAT exam and did well enough to get accepted into college at age 13. However, I have decided that he must stay in high school. He attends the school for the gifted and talented in Washington, D.C. Sue Fink is in her department head tour at HC II in San Diego. She deployed on BOXER (LHD4) as OIC of the SAR del and retumed last June.

The ARG worked in the Red Sea for NEO contingency ops for the Eritrea/Ethiopia war and in the gulf for Operations Southern Watch, MIO and exercises with the Kuwaitis. Finally fulfilling a lifelong dream (and gaining a little SWO appreciation), she qualified OOD U/W and had her own watch team on the retum transit. She is planning to go back to school sometime this Summer on the East Coast.

Kathy and Scott Quinlan and their four kids live in Kentucky. Can't remember whom Scott flies for in his civilian job, but he is still flying in the Marine Corps Reserve.

Aggie (Mayeaux) Coleman is living in the northeast and working in Newport (at SWOS, I think). She and her husband, Michael, have a son.

Sofia and Blake Sprayberry are living in Ithaca, NY, while Blake attends Cornell

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The "Dirty 1/2 Dozen" in Quantico University's Johnson School of Business to get his M.B.A. They have two children. Kristen (3) and Lukas (1).

Lenny Aguilar lives in Newark. DE. with his family where he is a marina manager on the Chesapeake Bay. Sandra Davidson is curremly XO of a ship out of San Diego (sorry I can't remember which one).

Karen Fallon, her husband. Butch Peebles, and their three girls are in Mechanicsburg, PA, where Karen works at NavSup. Karen was early selected to CDR this past year!

Al Janisewski (jarasa@erols.com) recently worked for the Defense Intelligence Agency as an analyst on terrorist weapons, explosives and tactics. He is married to Linda Slootmaker '90 and has three kids, Evan (9), Bryn (7) and Natalie (14 months). Al stays active playing MSBL baseball as a pitcher and DH. His address is 5121 Linette Lane, Annandale, VA 22003; 703-426-0548.

George Pointon and Diana (Selberg) Pointon are in San Diego where George is stationed with the Marine Corps and Diana continues to be Super mom to their two boys. Grant and Matt.

Fran (Cardinelli) Franklin is in San Diego.

She and her husband Quentin have three kids, Hilde (8), Quentin (5), and Jack (3).

I have heard through the grapevine that Matt Hickey is out of the Navy, has graduated from medical school, and he and wife, Cindy, have a daughter Congrats, Dr Matt! Also, I heard that Dan Ballister is now working in Seattle.

I diink that's all I have. Hope this helps you out.

Well Anne, that letter qualifies as a Class Secretary's dream. Thanks again for taking the time to give us such a great update.

Chris Kowald sent a great letter detailing how he set up his squadron gedunk along with some great ideas for our Class gedunk. He also sent in this personal update: I'm curtently an account manager for a company called Unison Industries in Jax. We manufacmre a majority of the world's turbine engine ignition systems. My account is Honeywell, which was AlliedSignal. I'm sure (most of our airline pilot Classmates) have an AfliedSignal APU on board, like a GTCP-85 or GTCP-36, but whatever it is, I can bet that one of my exciters is on it. Actually, the aerospace market is forecast to downturn.

Along with this update, Chris sent an extensive spreadsheet to help our Class gedunk with pricing and inventory. Thanks for taking the time to help all of us!

Andy Schneider (alschneid@aol.com) is next in the line-up with this update and request for help in locating some lost Classmates.

1 just got online a few months ago, so 1 thought I'd get a quick update into Shipmate.

I left the Navy in '94 after eight years of SWO life, and settled back down in Ohio with my wife, Tina, and family. We have three wonderful children: Maria (10), Andrew (8), and Anthony (3). 1 Shipmate, May 2000

am a sales engineer for Ohio Transmission & Pump Company, which is a mechanical and electrical distributor based out of Columbus.

By the way. I'm trying to track down John O'Donnell and Scott Outlaw (both 19th Co.) I know John left the Navy a few years ago, got his M.B.A. at Camegie-Melon in Pittsburgh, and then moved to Texas with a computer company (Compuware?) in mid '99. Do you by chance have current emails for either of these two?

Scott and John, if you are out there then please let me know your curtent emails as well. Thanks, Andy.

For those Alumni Uving in the Atianta/North Georgia area, Jim Ravenel '45 sends the following.

Our Atianta Chapter is making every effort to update our Roster Alumni House has their database, we have our database, and both are woefully out of date! We feel that probably the individual Class records are the most accurate of all.

We would like to ask a favor of you. Would you be enough to give us the names, addresses, and phone numbers of all of your Classmates that reside in Georgia? We sure would be most grateful ! You can send them to me at any of the following: Jim Ravenel '45, Director USNA Alumni Assoc.-Atlanta, 230 Lakeview Ridge East, Roswell, GA 30076-3205; 770-992-1515; f: 770-587-1122;ravinvest ©ravenel.net. Bear Army/ Finally, just to show our past can come back to haunt us, I spent an enjoyable two weeks flying out in the Med with my Reserve squadron, VR-59.

I was paired up with no other than my Plebe year squad leader Mike Mahan '83. Mike is a commander that has recently transferted out to VR-55 at Pt. Mugu as Executive Officer Mike is also a fellow Delta pilot flying the MD-88/90. It was fun recounting the old days, until he asked me why I didn't say "Sir." Strangely, I could remember the whole standard reply out of Reef Points. I was half way through the response when Mike yelled, "Snap out of it!" It is amazing how some facets of Canoe U. stay with us.

Until next month, Audemus Esse Magnos]

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Pres/Sec'y: Tim Wolf RO. Box 87, Annapolis, MD 21404 h: 703-271-0907; e: shipmate87@aol.com Class Web site: http://usna87.com Hello '87. Here's some news from early this year First, Greg Ellison is assigned to the Navy's Test Pilot School at Pax River Jeff Griffith works for Modis Inc. in Jacksonville, FL. He also consults for Homeside Lending Inc. Cheryl and Jeff have been martied for over eight years and are contemplating living on their 'dream boat" one day.

Todd Allison is a manager of systems engineering for Storage Concepts, Inc. in Columbus, OH. Bob Parker is a project manager for Puget Sound Energy in Bellevue, WA. Eric Lafnitzegger is a MIS senior database developer in Seattie, WA. Mark Gibson is a maintenance superintendent for the Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation in Lafayette, IN. John Hottendorf is an account representative for Bradley-Morris, Inc. in Norfolk, VA. Eric Perreca is vice president for business development for Vistify LLC in San Francisco. Nick Campbell is a staff engineer with Johnson & Johnson.

Theresa and Dave Quick are living in Indianapolis, IN. The Quicks have three children: John, Matthew, and Wesley.

Joe DiPaola sent word that Betsy and Jon Hensley are proud parents of triplets. Joe added that Sean Mangan also works at USintemetworking in Annapolis.

Cheryl and Jeff Danielson had a special holiday season in 1999. Their first child, son Theodore "Teddy" Buren, was bom on 23 December at the Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu.

The Danielsons on Oahu Jim Fisher is OIC of a SH-60 det on SAMUEL B .

ROBERTS. Mike Martin was deployed on KENNEDY at the beginning of this year TTFN, TJW

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got that right!) and her husband, Jason, is a Task Unit Commander for Seal Team One, and he's currently on deployment. Jeanine and Jason are expecting their first baby on 31 July and Jason returns from deployment 24 July! Way to cut it close, Jason; and hang in there Jeanine! We also got to spend time with Ruth (Chasen) and Tom Popp and their four beautiful daughters, Frances, Naomi, Hannah, and the newest addition, Mary. Talk about a house full of fun—even if Tom is out-numbered 5 to 1! Ruth and Tom just got to Coronado in Febraary and Tom is an Aviation Engineering Duty Ofcr for AirPac at NAS North Island. Ruth is a fabulous (of course) stay-at-home mom and home schoolteacher (Can you say busy?) We had a terrific time visiting and letting our kids get acquainted. Jeanine, Ruth and I were Plebe Year roomies and it was great to reunite for some chat and lots of laughs. Thanks for a great trip, gals!

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Hello '89! Thanks to everyone who sent input for my first column as Cortesponding Secretary.

The best part about being the scribe for the Class is that I get to read the gouge first] It was really great to see so many people at the 10-year Reunion last fall—my family had a great time—despite the tortential rains! Also, another quick plug for the '89 Web site, www.usna89.org, if you haven't registered with your curtent snail mail and email addresses, please do so! It is really great to have such a convenient location to re-connect with friends, and if you haven't looked yet, you may be surprised at the long list of Classmates that have registered.

First, I'll do a quick personal update: Jeff and I have been living in the Dallas, TX, area since 1995, but are planning a relocation back to my home state of Michigan (Lansing area) after the school year ends in May. My kids, Meghan and Joseph, are in second grade and kindergarten, respectively. We just spent their spring break traveling out to San Diego and Coronado to see Jeanine (Noser) Ehret.

Jeanine is the Intel Officer for ComNavSpecWarGroup (CNSWG) ONE (hope I

Through the class registry on the Web site, I also got back in touch with a fellow gen. engineering major that I enjoyed many classes with. Bill Jividen. Well, I won't say I necessarily "enjoyed" all the classes, but Bill made them bearable! Bill has accomplished quite a bit since graduation, so here goes: On a personal note, I married Melanie, a wonderful giri from Maryland in April 1990. Immediately afterwards, I moved her to San Diego where I was stationed on my first ship. I fought in the Gulf War and got to run around with the Kuwaitis in their patrol boats. Long story. Anyway, as a reward for a job well done, I went to another ship in San Diego, and after four-and-ahalf years of sea duty, finally had shore duty in D.C. as a project manager Luckily, I was still married and still honeymooning.

While ashore, I loved the 9-5 routine and weekends at home so much that, not so surprisingly, I decided to get out and go to law school in New Hampshire. I picked up a law degree and a master's in intellectual property from Franklin Pierce Law Center NH and a master's in information management/information systems from GWU. We enjoyed the small community life so much that after law school, 1 decided to accept work at a small firm of 15 attomeys in Dayton, OH. I've just recentiy passed the Ohio bar, so considering I've had my head in the books the last five years collecting degrees, it's really nice to finally be doing some fun work as a patent attomey. The work is definitely better than being on a ship, and so is the pay, and most of the time I'm learning about a new area of technology. However I'm still waiting on hitting the lottery, so that 1 can move to Colorado and become a professional rock climber and mountain biker Melanie and I have been hanging out with Matthew Ungerleider and his wife, Melissa.

They live in Columbus, OH, and have two children, Kyra and Tess. Mart's working for Alcatel selling telecommunication equipment and is doing great. They just bought a bigger house in Dayton, and will be moving once they get back from their trip to Australia.

At an Alumni meeting, I also ran into Matt Lightner. He's also doing well, and working for K-Force.com as their Business Unit Director Although we had never met before, it was nice talking to a Classmate since being new to Ohio.

Thanks for the update, Bill! The next note came from Bonny (Morgan) Podiak, along with a picture from the 10-year Reunion: It was great to see friends and Classmates at our Reunion. We especially enjoyed a 15 Company branch at the end of the weekend. Since leaving active duty two-and-a-half years ago, my husband, Dick, and I have been enjoying Cincinnati. We both work in marketing at Procter & Gamble and I have been on a three-day-a-week schedule since the birth of our daughter, Claire, 16 months ago. We are expecting our second child in June. Attached is a photo of myself with Claire, Kristen (Colbert) Whitley and Tania (Viera) Garza, keeping dry under the tent.

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10-year Reunion under the tent Thanks for the note and the photo. Bonny. Pictures are always appreciated! Next. I received a quick update from Dale Hurley: Hello "89! Just wanted to let everyone know that my wife, Beth, gave birth to an 8-pound, 10ounce baby boy on 2 March 2000, around 1 a.m.

Beth is doing fine after the delivery. His name is Ian Patrick and his brother Cooper 3 1/2-yearsold, is very excited to have a baby brother Take care and I hope everyone is doing well.

Congratulations. Dale! Awesome news. I received similar news from Kristin (Reynolds) Goodrich who announced the arrival of Timothy Andrew Goodrich, also bom on 2 March 2000. He weighed in at 8 pounds, 7 ounces, and joins big sisters Katherine (4) and Julia (2). Congratulations to Kristin and husband, Terry!!

Next I received an update from Carol Womack, and here it is: Greetings all! This message comesfromWashington, D.C. where I am hopefully completing my final tour in the United States Navy. It's been a wild ride. I'm working at the Navy Yard as a "staff weenie" for the Naval Facilities Engineering Command. No Classmates at this command, but in Febraary I saw Craig Prather. Michelle LaDuca and Len Cooke out at die LCDR CEC refresher course. All were well. Craig is in Guam, anticipating a move to the West Coast as Ops officer of a battalion. Len Cooke is currently Ops officer for NMCB 133. Michelle's coming to San Diego after a couple years at MCAS Iwakuni.

Everyone (except Len) is aging gracefiiUy. Grace is only applied to Len when playing baseball or drinking beer, but he looks good too.

I see Krista (Harris) Cheatham from time to time. She's completing a law degree and anticipating her first anniversary and her first opportunity to live in the same zip code as her hubby.

I hopefully will be in the D.C.-Northeast area for the foreseeable future, but at present the future is slightly fuzzy. Will keep you posted.

Thanks, Carol, and please do keep us posted.

Finally, I received the following update from Paul Dabbar: 1 am still here in New York City, a couple of months away from my sixth-year anniversary. It's a little stunning to think I have lived in NYC longer than 1 was in the Navy. I still live on the Upper West Side of Manhattan near the Hudson River, not too far from my original grad school apartment at Columbia, or from Rob Cassady and Dennis Sullivan, who also live in the neighborhood.

I still get die occasional Classmate visitor looking to spend some free time in NY. Over the last year, both Rob Lewis and Bill Becker have visited regularly. Bill is still living outside Boston, and Rob is in the process of moving with his family to London for 18 months, still doing strategy consulting for Deloitte Consulting. Kristi and Will Pennington have also visited me. Will finished his Squadron Officer tour in the Med, participating in the Kosovo actions. He is still living in the Virginia Beach area.

While I visited Boston in January, Rob, Bill, and I went to a party thrown by Mike McGettigan.

I missed the 10-year Reunion since I already had Labor Day plans last year by the time everything was set up. 1 did, however, celebrate the anniversary with Bill Becker and Rob Lewis, since I was on a trip to Italy with them and their Shipmate, May 2000

wives that weekend. So we celebrated the 10-year in Florence.

I'm still work at J.P. Morgan, going on four years (dabbar_paul@jpmorgan.com). I was promoted to vice president in the Mergers and Acquisitions department. Recent fun trips include Italy (discussed above). New Orleans, and Belize.

I am also still teaching one day a semester at USNA on corporate finance topics in one of the Econ. classes. This semester's lecture is on "Hostile Corporate Takeovers."

Other news of note: Greg Pottieger started an Application Service Provider firm called Bow Wave Technology. Herbert Earl Jones moved down to Austin to work for Dell (and be part of the small contingent of Democrats in Austin working on the Gore campaign). Matt Sandoval is now doing private equity investments at Bear Steams in NYC. PS. Rob Cassady, you need to organize another USNA '89 New York get together even though you're busy as gs.com.

Wow! Thanks for the update, Paul. Well, that will do it for this issue. Please continue sending in updates. There are many of you out there that have successfully "dodged" the update for ten years, and we'd love to hear from you. I remember a while back, the column started the "Where Are They Now" random names that we'd like to hear from, so maybe I can dig out the Lucky Bag and reinstitute that name game and get some more great updates. All my info is above, so please use my email address for inputs and questions/comments, as needed. Looking forward to hearing from you, '89!

'Til next time. MLMR89

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Pres: Capt Robert B. Sofge, USMC Sec'y: Eileen H. Laubacher 43 Willowleaf Drive, Littieton, CO 80127 h: 303-904-0806; w: 901-565-2120 e: laubacher3@cs.com Web master: Ron Surfield e: rsurfield@netrail.net Class Web site: www.usna90.org Hi there everyone! This month we are very light on letters and heavy on photos! That makes quite a change for us. Hopefully the email notes will pick up again soon. Thanks to everyone who has been writing in. Without further ado, here are the photos and notes for the month. First from Ed Sanville, he sent this wedding photo from his 1 October wedding to Beth Dorsey: Then Jackie and Jim Hudson sent these pictures.

They were taken while DAVID R. RAY (DD-971) was in Sydney, Australia, during a six-month de ployment:

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Beth and Ed Sanville's 1 October wedding. Kirby Scott, third from left, top row

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James Barty, Chief Judge Mayer David Walker' Gary Savitt Thanks again for the submissions and the photos, everyone. I hope this finds all of you well and happy. Keep those cards and letters coining. Take care and God bless. -Eileen James and Jackie in Sydney, Australia Then last a note from Gary Savitt and James Barney: This is a joint submission, the first ever for either of us. Having followed somewhat similar paths to our current positions, we thought that we might send something together Before we share where we have been all these years, we would like to say hello to all those from the Class of '90 who hail from the 18th Co. Both James Barney and I left the 18th Company and USNA for Nuclear Power School, where we began our nuclear submarine careers.

After sub training, I was assigned to KAMEHAMEHA (SSN-642), which would eventually call Hawaii home, and James was assigned to HYMAN G. RICKOVER (SSN-709), out of Norfolk. I did the

five-and-dive thing, entered law school, and started working at the United States Patent and Trademark Office. James did a short shore tour at ComOplEVFor, in Norfolk, and then entered law school in 1996. Upon graduation from American University in D.C. in 1998,1 started a clerkship with Judge Pauline Newman on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

In 1999 (about a year after I artived at the court) and upon graduation from Yale Law School, James also began a clerkship at the court, but for a different judge. Judge Raymond C. Clevenger ni. When our clerkships end, in August of 2000, we plan to practice patent law. We are both married, and each of us has one son, although James's beautiful family of three will be a family of four in July.

One final note, there are currently three former USNA submariners, the two of us and David Walker '89, clerking at the court. Given this strong Navy presence, we felt compelled to show our Navy spirit to our chief judge, a West Point grad. One evening during Army-Navy week, we snuck into his office and transformed his desk into Bill the Goat. The attached picture shows the goat, our chief judge, and the three curtcnt USNA/former submariner clerks. L to r: James, Chief Judge Mayer David and 1.

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Piling onto the Atlanta scene soon will be (my fellow Plebe Year Stalag 17 mate) Scott Edwards.

After graduation, Scott went to flight school and ^ selected jets. After a year in the S-3 FRS, he flew the ES-3A with VQ-5 at North Island for three years. Following sea duty, he moved to VS-41 (the S-3 FRS) and has been a flight instractor for the last two years. That makes six years in Coronado— what a steal! With the closing down of the ES-3 community, Scott decided to make a transition in order to stay in the Navy. He was picked up for TAR and will soon be flying C-9s in Atianta. Scott and his wife, Katie, recently celebrated their 7th wedding anniversary. She resigned from active duty six months ago and now works with her own home business. We look forward to welcoming you into the growing Atlanta fold, Scott!

That's all for now! Hope everyone is well -JD

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Hello Again '92.

This article will conclude my stint as our Class corresponding secretary. I have enjoyed the job, Hi, all! Slow month for the mailbag, but here's especially the opportunity to cortespond with felwhat I've got. low Classmates, and would like to thank everyone We can always count on the (Rob) Gaucher clan for their support. From it, I leamed that there are to check in from time to time. It appears we can many Classmates who want to get involved and also count on the Gaucher clan to grow soon, too. really care about the Class. You will be happy to Rob and Renea found out around Christmas time know that the same united spirit that stormed eighth that they'll be expecting a baby in August. Ever wing Plebe year is alive and well today. My rethe professional, Rob's first thought was, "Great! placement is Bob Pothier. He lives in Boston as a That leaves just enough time for me to get in a professional writer You might remember him from quick six-month deployment!" Rob is expected to his days as a goaltender on the hockey team, #29. retum a week before the baby artives. Renea is He has created a Web site to handle all emails: http:/ spending her Spring as a travelling teacher and /members.tripod.coni/rbpothier/92site_home.htm. tutor Rob and Renea have a great place near the Take the time to visit the site and update your email. beach and Renea would love some company. Call The first message comes from our acting Class her at 757-412-4484. You can email Rob at president Dave Helmreich: OCITY@sublant.navy.mil—put "GAUROB" in Greetings from Annapolis. the subject line. Or try LT Rob Gaucher, OKLAMany of you may not know that 1 have taken HOMA CITY ( S S N - 7 2 3 ) , F P O A E 09581-2403. Fair over as the acting Class president. We solicited winds, Rob! for Classmates interested in running for executive committee seats and Chris Cordero and 1 I also received an email from Anthony Spinier have been running the Class affairs to the best of (anthony@spinlercom and dana@spinlercom). our ability as Vice President and President reAnthony has accepted a new position at a small spectfully. Christie (Niebuhr) Munnelly has bio-tech company, called Sigma-Genosys, in north been graciously helping with everything includHouston. He'll be a project manager for their new ing recording secretary for executive committee processes to improve production operations. He meetings. To make a long story short, expect a and wife, Dana, feel that God has found the work Class mailing shortly for an official election. for his hands, and they ask for your prayers as they make their transition. Also, check out their Web site: www.spinlercom. Thanks, Anthony, and good luck!

The rest of my news comes from Atlanta. I started the month by having lunch with Joe Pasquito, who is working now for The Southem Company. JoPa is doing great, and we hope to hit the links soon. His number in town is 404-8859145. A few weeks later, I heard from John McVay (jmcvay@ixl.com) who has just moved here with his family from California. After finishing his business degree at UCLA, John is working for iXL, an Internet consulting firm. Finally, I finished the month sharing a dinner with Bill Bollwerk, who works in real estate development here outside of ^^ ••KJA. Al Atlanta. Bill's as happy-go-lucky as ever, and is even happier as a newlywed (pictures to follow next month). s«^

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1 want to stay away from Class business in Shipmate since there are oUier forams to take care of these issues, but I wanted to give you an update of what was going on in the Class. By the time you read this, www.usna92.com will be up and ranning and will provide the Class with one stop shopping for Class information, updates, email databases and tons of other info. 1 have been working on the project on my own, so bear with me on the design and details. I wasn't much of a computer science major in the first place; so if any of you are whiz kids, please let me know.

Shipmate articles are going to be written by Bob Pothier from this article forward, so ensure that you get your info to him at rbpothier@yahoo.com.

Our previous Class president, Scott Hottenstein, did a phenomenal job and left the local area last year to head to Department Head School. Dave Lillefloren was taking over as president and 1 was going to help him out with the VP duties. Well. Lilly lucked out with a job with GE in Kentucky and since our by-laws mandated a local president. Chris and I jumped in to lend a hand. To make a long story short, the Class hasn't been vety active, but by the time you are reading this, hopefully we have been able to tum that horse around.

1 just wanted to let you know I am committed to our Class and give you an idea of a couple of things to think at)out in the near future. Since 1 am writing this in Febraary, you may have already heard the news, but here are couple of things happening in the Annapolis local area in the future.

Late April - Third Annual Spring Social 22 April-Navy vs. Hopkins lacrosse game and tailgater at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium 2 December-Army Navy in Baltimore!

If you are planning on coming to Army-Navy this year, hopefully you have been looking into tickets. Tickets went on sale 1 March for NAAA members and faculty. Alumni and Faculty can purchase tickets 3 April. There will be a Class event in the Annapolis area Friday evening as well as a tailgater at the game Saturday. If you are purchasing tickets and want to sit in the Class section, make sure to ask for Group 745.

Thanks again for all the people who have come forward and want to help. If you have any questions, please email me at helmreic@gwmail. usna.edu. or call me at 410-293-6014. Go Navy.

Qassmate Brian Finman wrote in from Newport.

I'm happy to report that '92 is alive and well up here. The two Department Head Classes presentiy enrolled contain fifteen '92ers. The following is a brief summary of who is here, where we came from, how big our families are, and where we are slated to go for our first department head tour We all have email accounts that generally follow the convention lastnamefirstinitial@ swos.navy.mil. in case you want to try getting a hold of anyone.

Paul Berthelotte and his wife. Shannon Jones, got married in June '99; Paul came from the Naval Safety Center in Norfolk and is going to be OPS on ANCHORAGE (LSD-36) in San Diego. Paul recentiy had the honor of commissioning two brothers into the Army (1 LT Joe Berthelotte and 2LT Brian Berthelotte). Paul and Shannon haven't taken the parenthood plunge yet, but do have a dog, named Fenris. Adolfo Ibarra, with his wife, Dena, and their darling one-year old daughter Isabela, came from instractor duty at the SWOS Damage Control School and is bound for STUMP (DD-978) in Norfolk as CHENG. Lance Lesher, with his wife, Cynthia, and their daughters, Christa (2) and Tabitha (1), also rolled from instractor duty at the SWOS Diesel Engineering School. Lance is going to be CHENG on OAK HILL {LSD-5I) in Little Creek. Todd Masters came from the Senate Office of Legislative Affairs. After his six-month re-adjustment to life in the real world (my sarcasm, not Todd's), Todd will be OPS on PETERSON (DD-969) in Norfolk.

Mark McCulloch came from Afloat Training Group Mayport; his wife, Michelle, is an SH-60B pilot at HSL-40 in Jax. Mark is heading to ROBERT G BRADLEY (FFG-49) in Mayport as CHENG. Hung Le, with his wife, Lyn, and their 4-year-

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old daughter Allison, came here from Monterey.

Hung is going to be CSO on HUE CITY (CG-66) in Mayport. Scott Erb, with his wife. Amy, and their 1-year-old daughter Emily, came from an internship at the Pentagon and the FBI. Scott is going to O'KANE (DDG-77) in Pearl Harbor Mark Olson and his wife, Debbie, came here from Monterey (Electrical Engineering). Their big news is that they became first-time parents on Valentine's Day. They named their baby boy Hal. Mark is going to be OPS on RAMAGE (DDG61) in Norfolk. Keith Beck came from APS LANT as a geo-bachelor His wife, Katrina, is a 1707 at PERS 86 in Millington. Keith will be the WCO on GETTYSBURG (CG-64). Kristin (Lindley) Stengel and her husband Todd came from Monterey (Operational Logistics). Kristin is expecting a baby in May and will then head to San Diego as OPS on BENFOLD (DDG-65). Her email is klstengel@aol.com. The following news is abbreviated because the other department head Class is split up into small groups for platform specific engineering and I haven't caught up with everyone for an update. Todd Boehm is going to be CHENG on DAVID R RAY (DD-97 1) in Everett.

Larry Gonzales is going to be WCO on BULKLEY (DDG-84) in Pascagoula. Mike Crary is going to be First Lieutenant on RUCHMORE (LSD-47) in San Diego. Doyle Hodges is going to be OPS on Ross (DDG-71) in Norfolk. Chris Alexander is going to be OPS on ARLEIGH BURKE (DDG-51).

Lastly. I came to Newport with my wife, Lyn, our 1-year-old daughter, Natalie, and our two dogs, Gunther and Gretchen. My last tour was instractor duty at NROTC Hampton Roads in Norfolk (taught at ODU). I am looking forward to being the First Lieutenant on GUNSTON HALL (LSD-44) back in lovely Hampton Roads. I'd also like to mention what my roommates from school are up to these days. Scott Chesbrough and his wife, Karen, are out in San Diego. Scott sold out...er I mean lateral transferred to Intel from SWO and is teaching at TacTraGruPac. Chip Beadle and his wife. Amy, are living in Modesto, CA, where Chip holds a management position at a Frito-Lay plant. For some odd reason. Chip now prefers to be addressed by his birth name, Wes. Ryan McBrayer (another SWO turncoat) is a JAG out in Hawaii; he went to University of Washington Law School courtesy of the LEP (sounds like "schlep") program and is now a prosecutor for the good guys. That's all 1 have. Warmest regards to everyone.

Thanks for the update, Brian. The next letter comes from Tony Nelipovich. Tony is out of the Navy and living in San Diego with his wife, Jill, and their two daughters, Shelby and Kelsey.

Andrew Hess is a fUght instractor in Pensacola, married to Andrea. They are expecting their first child, a boy, due on Saint Patrick's Day. Fittingly he will be named Brian Patrick, about as Irish as you can get.

Dewayne Sullins has two kids (one boy, one girl) and lives in Washington state with his wife, Tracy. He is an instractor up there. His email address is dtsullins@earthlink.net. You may want to put out an All points bulletin for anyone who knows the location of Chad Boutin. I last heard from him about one to two years ago when he was going to Russia to teach for six months. Adam Wichman separated from the Navy (Fleet Combat Training Center Pacific with me) in 1997 and was going to earn his master's at Oxford in England. John McLoone lives with his wife, Pam, in Maryland.

He separated from ONI in '99 and works for MCI (I think). He has a girl named Isabel.

Robin Dreeke from New York wrote in to announce the birth of the newest little Dreeke. Bom on 26 November, Kevin Robin Dreeke weighed in at 6 pounds 9 ounces and 20 1/4 inches long. Congratulations, Robin. Finally, I spoke to Ig Lepe.

He is in HT-18 as an instructor in Whiting Field.

He is really enjoying the job and is living in La Vida Loca with his wife, Lila, and son, Alejandro.

Adios Amigos, Ed Lucio

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Pres: LT Matt Arny, USN VP/Treas: LT Matt Arnold, USN Treas: LT Efren Mojica, USN Sec'y: LT Jim Mills, USN Corr Sec'y: Capt Shogo Cottrell, USMC 1405 SW Highland Dr, Lee's Summit, MO 64081 h: 816-246-4489; e: shipmate@usna93.com Class Web Page: www.usna93.com

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Pres: IstLt Scott K. Hornbuckle, USMC PSC 556, Box 506, FPO AP 96386-0506 h: 011-826-11-737-0083 e: hombuckle@hotmail.com Vice Pres/Treas: Kirk Clermont 3991-117 Marine Lake Road Virginia Beach, VA 23452 e: clermont_kirki@msn.com Sec'y: Chris Williams 4314 Chippewa Drive, Jacksonville, FL 32210 e: chrisandmary@ibm.net Cort. Sec'y: LT Jim Keck, MC, USN 1735 Felch Ave., Jacksonville, FL 32207 h: 904-396-4008; e: JKeck@usna94.cora Class Web Page: http://www.usna94.com Hello '94! This month's column is going to be brief. Cortespondence is starting to pick up, but my computer crashed a week before the deadline, so I am going to postpone these Class news updates until next month. I just wanted to get a quick update on Class related news instead of leaving you without a monthly article.

First of all, we are working at a feverish snail's pace in developing the Class store. The finished products are in, and a working Web store should be up and ranning by the time you read this. You should find a number of options to pay for Class items, and you'll be very pleased with the product. Kirk Clermont did a great job in ordering the merchandise. If you have any questions or feedback, please contact me or Kirk Clermont.

The Web site is continuing to be an integral tool in keeping everyone informed. To date, we've received 17,978 hits, and our Class list now boasts 651 entriesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;that's well over two-thirds of our Class! Some of you are starting to upload your own pictures. Feel free to submit any baby pictures, wedding photos, group gatherings, etc.. .to the Web site.

Well, that's all for now. Please accept my apologies on behalf of my aging computer We'll be back in service for the next column. Have a great summer, take care, and God bless. C-ya... Jim

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Pres: LTJG Bart Phillips, USN 7980 Sevan Court, Unit D, San Diego, CA 92123 e: bartphillips@ibm.net; hm: 858-278-2739 Sec'y: IstLt Tonya Barz, USMC 6416 Sugar Maple Court, Fredericksburg, VA 22407 h: 540-548-3344; e: barzt@yahoo.com Greetings, 1996! Wedding news artives from Kailua, HI, where Bill Pennington and his bride Kate (Ponder) of Washington, D . C , are residing.

Kate, a graduate of the University of Maryland who received her master's in education from Johns Hopkins, married Bill on 26 July 1999 in Annapolis. Many Classmates and shipmates joined the couple to make the celebration perfect. The wedding party consisted of TJ Grady, Jeff Melody, Erik Estenson, and Geoff Walker. Clarke Craine, Jay Ledoux, Tom Winkler, and Joel Silverman were swordbearers.

According to Bill, many other "fine" and "not so fine" graduates attended, as well as a few who chose to go to school elsewhere. They enjoyed seeing the old faces and reminiscing of past experiences. Bill is stationed with VP-4, the Skinny Dragons, at MCBH Kaneohe Bay. The Navy moved all of the P-3Cs from Barbers Point to Kaneohe Bay last year. Rumor has it that the Marines "had a hidden gem." The Alunmi over there include TJ Grady, Luke Hofacker, Rory Burke, Matt Leyman '97, Greg Emory '95, and Dean Wakeman '95). Additional Alumni are Jimmy Detwiller '95, Clay Callahan '95, and Kim (Ard) Cran. There appears to be quite a contingency of '97 showing up as well. Kate is teaching fourth grade at a local school and enjoys the sunny days off at the beach or the golf course with Bill. Although life has been good for Bill, he will depart for deployment this month. Aloha to all of you, and here is Bill's email: Billkatep@hotmail.com. Thanks, Bill.

Good ol' Tony Magrogan, stationed on PITTSBURGH (SSN-720) out of Groton, CT, writes while on a public relations tour of Pittsburgh, their host city. While in the city, he stayed with Nick Kristof.

Tony, Brian Giracca, and Andy Richards '97 will be doing a "Med Run" with their boat the second half of the year. As far as the rest of Tony's life, he enjoys playing acoustic guitar and singing at bars during the week in Mystic City, CT, (where he resides) for fun, free drinks, and a little extra money (oh, that sub pay isn't enough, huh, buddy!?). He reassures us that he is not engaged or martied or anything like that, and he claims he heads to NYC on the weekends to tear it up with his buddies in Manhattan. The last piece that Tony launches out is a missing person request for the Kristofs to locate Ben Pappas' address, so, Ben, you are the next name on the '"96 Most Wanted." Jot Tony a line at magrogan@snet.net if you have any info.

Thanks, Tony "Void Where Prohibited rules" Magrogan (and try and stay out of trouble!).

We have a few bits here to discover the "whereabouts" of some of our long lost Classmates. Mike York is deployed in the Arabia Gulf on GARY ( F F G 51) out of Yokosuka, Japan, and Bart continues his six-month party afloat after hitting Pusan, Korea, Hong Kong, and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (and you thought that Pensacola was "all work and no play!"

Hang in there, kid). Dennis Volpe is aboard SPRUANCE (Mayport, FL), Jonathan Murphy is assigned to JOHN F . KENNEDY (Mayport, FL), and

Todd Bruemer is out playing with Patrol Squadron 10 (recently deployed to Naval Air Station Sigonella). Michael Apriceno was underway on CONSTELLATION (San Diego), while Anthony Billotti embarked with Strike Fighter Squadron 151 aboard CONSTELLATION where he participated in Operation Southem Watch. On the Marine side, John Jackson successfully completed Mountain Warfare Training at Bridgeport, CA. Matthew Schnappauf recently completed a deployment to the Med Sea and Arabian Gulf aboard JOHN HANCOCK, and Mike Breen and Jason Stillwell celebrated the holidays of '99 with Patrol Squadron 26 in Puerto Rico. Ryan Eisenhardt flies with Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron (Light) 43, Sea Duty Component Naval Air Station, North Island, and Sean Rough reported for duty with Sea Control Squadron 31, Naval Air Station Cecil Field, Jacksonville.

Spring, salt water, or sand are in the air (depending on where you are!). Looking forward to more photos, letters, email...messages by pigeon. I will end with a good quote by Frank Outlaw for our '96 Leaders:

Watch your thoughts; they become words.

Watch your words; they become actions.

Watch your actions; they become habits.

Watch your habits; they become character Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

Stay motivated... Tony a

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Pres: 1st Lt Tom Wagner, USMC h: 703-784-2036 e: towags@hotmail.com Sec'y: LTJG Mike McGreevy, USN 4053 Smokey Lake D r , Virginia Beach, VA 23462 h: 757-343-4438 e: groovel997@hotmail.com Classmates, shipmates, senators, filth, athletes, ock-nods, brigeeks, herbivores, guys I liked, and guys I didn't like...what's up? Wags here, bringing you this month's message due to Groove starting Buds. Congratulations to our illustrious secretary for attaining a SEAL billet. Joining Groove at Buds from '97 is David "Don" Ricci and David "Wyatt" Earp.

I have escaped the clutches of Okinawa for the time being to compete on the all-Marine wrestling team in Quantico for the next few months. I apologize for my lack of Class news, but the next time any of you go to another hemisphere and live on an island that is half the size of Ann Arundel County for a couple of years, feel free to try and keep up to date on who got pinned, or winged, or married, or spawned, or went to jail, or who is already in Monterey (Ryan Perry), or got on ' T h e Price Is Right" (Lester Fortney), or even got their picture taken with mini me in San Diego at a SEAL team demonstration over the 4th of July (Clint Bruce).

The news that I do have is not very curtent, so bear with me.

Cal Quinn got married to his wife, Tabitha, at the Academy Chapel a while back where there was permanent damage done to the Chapel steps. The sword bearers, Kris Martin, Chad Holzapfel, Doug Zimmerman, Greg Smith, Nate Johnston, Collin Echols, and Neal Plaskonos. Plaz lead the procession with his amazing prowess in the field of drill and sword manual.

Ryan "The Recreational Vehicle" Perry has already found a way to serve two years deployed overseas and is curtently working on his master's at Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey. This is through absolutely no merit of his own, and again reinforces the theory that even a blind squirtel could find a nut on a given day. RV, you are disgusting.

One of our former Class presidents, (who was also impeached), Kris Martin, has completed his short deployment career due to a twisted ankle and is curtently shore based in San Diego, doing very littie at best.

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Mat Pfeffer recently caused his ship to run aground before it even pulled out of die port, due to him being on the weatherdeck during a wind gust which caught his nose and acted as a mainsail.

After three days and two nights of eating fowl pizza and playing games of bocce ball on the beach, they finally set sail.

I recentiy returned from a few months in Australia, where many Marines from '97 were forced to go for exercise Crocodile '99. To name a few, Dave Joseforsky, Tammy Mason, Quinton Vaughn. Henry Hurt. Drew Meredith traveled to Australia just to meet a few of us and party in Gold Coast for a couple of weeks. I liked it so much I went back to Sydney and Melbourne for 35 days of leave over Christmas and New Year's. Sick time.

I think I found my future ex-wife.

On Okinawa, I ran into the occasional '97 leader of Marines on the unit deployment program; William Thomas Scott. Neal Plaskonos, Luke McConnell, Chris Perkins, Ben Robertson, Cris "Bam Bam" Picado, Bart Batista, and Brian Tinning (thanks again for the bondo job you did on the car I loaned you while I was in Australia).

Clint Bruce was in Okinawa for six months with SEAL team 5 and put me on the "how to gain 50 pounds in one month" training regiment. During Clint's deployment, you would think he was out doing high speed SEAL stuff, but instead of scraping his 265 pounds off of the recliner, he led Navy football to the national championships in the play station game "NCAA Football 2000." Omar, you'll be glad to know you won the Heisman Trophy.

As for those poor saps, that were stuck on the rock for the long haul, James Richardson, Tammy Mason, Frank Workman, Dave Joseforsky, Frank Filler, Drew "Daddy Dawg" Meredith, Henry Hurt, and Ryan Perry. If any of you find yourself up for rotation orders and they read "Okinawa," find some way to acquire cholera, or visit Tijuana and retum with some unidentifiable disease, or amputate your non-writing arm, or do something that will inhibit you from executing your orders. Not that it is a bad place with a poor night Ufe or anything, I would just rather have my face scraped against a cheese grater for an entire hockey season, than set foot on that God-forsaken hunk of coral ever again.

The Marine Corps sent me to San Diego for some training over the summer where I attended a 4th of July party at the home of Bob "Blob" Armbruster.

In attendance were many members of the Brigade honor committee, Rob Sinram, Rick Worthington, Spyros Koumparakis, Scott Davis, Alex Garcia, Brian Antonelli (celebrated his one year anniversary to his wife. Sue), Sam Lanasa, and Chris Erwin. Blob Armbraster and his wife, Nicole, were married in August '99 in Annapohs.

During another pilgrimage to San Diego, I ran into the home of the impeccable driving record, Dave Ricci, Brian Lawrence Clairmont, Darren Genstil, and John Walsh. Still paying homage to Uncle Arty Leveris, they are all four roommates and would love to host any questions you might have on commuting in the San Diego metropolitan area.

I only know about a few engagements, so if I miss you, then send me your info. William Thomas Scott and Rhonda "B" Leverett are engaged with plans for a September wedding in the Bahamas. Bill cocks cannons in Camp Lejeunne and Rhonda is curtently at Wright-Patterson Air Force base in Ohio getting her master's at the Air Force Postgraduate School.

After seven semesters of calculus at The Naval Academy, Neal Plaskonos is engaged to Melissa Plean '98. After asking when the big day was, Neal replied, "I don't even know what month comes after September..."

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Here is one that you all should enjoy. Our esteemed romantic. Shea Thompson, recently sold his Harley Davidson in order to buy an engagement ring for his bride-to-be and Classmate, Darcy Stewart...I don't know where to begin with that one, so I'll just shut my cakehole.

The oldest Marine that does not yet have a building or a monument named after him, Larry Post, is married and is expecting his first born on 21 May. Strangely enough, that day coincides with Larry's 182nd birthday. In the year 2018, Larty will be able to celebrate his bicentennial the same day his first bom graduates high school. Great planning Larry!

Andy "too cool for school" Ross finally got engaged to Alii and is planning on a May wedding. Andy is in the E2/C2 pipeline in meridian after competing on the USA lacrosse team in the World Games.

In case any of you are concemed about driving on the not-so-safe streets of America, you may want to shift your concern to flying in the area of Southem Califomia. The Class of '97 curtentiy has a few distinguished sophisticates flying multi-million-dollar aircraft in harms way there. Driving CH46s out of North Island are Rob Sinram, Greg Mendenhall, Brian Wilson, Mark Tripiano, Justin McAnear, and Steve Everage. In the back seat of the S-3s are Dan Kelley and Matt Scanlan. And, in the SH-60, we have Clay Smith. Randy Staab is flying the CH-46 for the Marines and recently received orders to New River, NC. Randy is currently researching the area's environment in hopes of finding something he is allergic to, so he cannot execute his orders. Keep searching. Randy!

Famous warfighters from '97. Cal Quinn will be featured in Life magazine as the boarding officer for his ship in the Persian Gulf. Jeff Smith was the strike officer (trigger puller) onboard FrtZGERALD when they launched tomahawks into Africa after the embassy bombing. Tommy "Christmas" Catungo led Marines into Kosovo on his Med deployment.

Here's the note from Groove: 1 moved recentiy, here's my new address: LTJG Mike McGreevyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;230 2446 Trident Way San Diego, CA 92155 I haven't heard much lately, so send me an email, write me a letter at my new address, or give me a call. No matter how you do it, stay in touch and look for next month's column. Thanks, Groove.

Any input that you might have for the Class, please send it to me while Groove is enduring hell at a raised altitude in Coronado with Dave Earp and Don Ricci. I can be reached via email: towags@hotmail.com or by phone: 703-784-2036.

Later, Wags

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ging along as well. By the way, Bridgette .Siamp will soon be martied to Coleman Ruiz (just thought I'd throw that out there).

I got a little news from the other side of the world. I'll just let you have that and all the other little tidbits of information.

From Arif Cirtlik: What's up? 1 always wanted to get in touch with you as to be aware of the things going on there and also let you guys know how I am doing over here; however that just could not happen due to various reasons. But 1 received pretty much every single issue of Shipmate and heard the news related to our great Class. Relating to the latest news, please pass on my best wishes and Congrats to Shawn upon his marriage.

I am now onboard a Meko-class frigate, TcG YiLDiRiM, as an electronics officer, which is a pretty demanding job for an Ensign; however as you know, an Annapolis graduate likes the challenge. Everything has been great so far 1 am still motivated and dedicated to reach my career goals.

In the near, I am planning on applying to grad school.

From Jody Smotherman: 1 got my wings in September at Whiting and moved out to North Island for the CH-46FRS enroute to follow in the phrog community.

Meghan Forehand and Paula Langille will be going to Guam and Jeremy Vcllon will be going to Norfolk. 1 am sure that there will be even more in the very near future. 1 am starting to see more and more '98ers floating around the HTs. I have seen John Cremins around, but he deployed to Bahrain last month.

That's all I got for you guys and gals. Congrats to Jody Smotherman, he got martied 18 March.

Arif, it was great to hear from you. One last thing: I love you guys!

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Pres: Buster O'Brien e: firstcompany@hotmail.com Vice Pres: Ben Adeyemi e: nigeriansteele@hotmail.com Treas: Jason Mendenhall Sec'y: Minh-tu Nguyen 6716 Stonecutter Drive, Burke, VA 22015 h: 703-644-7924; e: minhtu99@yahoo.com In just the blink of an eye, the one year mark for our graduation is fast approaching. Now that we've all had at least some real world experiences under our belts, start sending in the reports and let me know how the Fleet is doing. Plenty of news to report to everyone this month, so I thought it would be easier if I started from one corner of the U.S.A. and go all around the country until I've hit all the major places. Just remember that this column was written in March and there's a three month time lapse from then until you're actually reading it now.

Pres: David Forman e: DSForman@aol.com; h: 843-763-6458 Vice Pres: John Chau Treas: Daniel J. Martin Sec'y: Shawn C. Gee Cort. Sec'y: Carrie Howe 44237 Webster, Canton, MI 48187 e: Ljohowe@aol.com Hello '98. I can't tell you what I'm doing because it is very very important stuff...top secret.. .okay I'm in the beginning of a MEU workup. I'll be leaving to go on a WestPac this coming August. Fortunately, Jake Harriman, Bridgette Stamp, Tom Ogden and Aaron Rigby will be tag123

I was in Newport over this past President's Day, making sure Greg Chesnut wasn't burning down any other parts of his home that Greg Clancy didn't manage to set fire to when he visited in January.

We were able to meet up with John and Jodi (Polhemus) Beattie and catch up for a bit. John was in town for the weekend to help Jodi pack up her things before she started the long drive over to Washington. John is living the high life over in Monterey, CA, going to classes in civvies and working towards his master's degree at the same time. He should be wrapping up classes this month and head down to Pensacola sometime next month.

I was also able to meet up with Duane Barnett and Taryn Brady. After teaching at NAPs since this past July, Duane and Taryn are part of the SWOs class that started this past January and will graduate with them sometime in June. I also ran into Glenn Larson while I was up there. He was on his way out to his ship in San Diego. Living with him out there will be Steve Earl and Duane Hess.

Now I have to make my apologies to residents of the Hammond House in Newport. Living in that house are Dave Paz, Alex Leanos and his three roommates whose names I have mauled in past columns. My apologies to Jonas Frey, Greg Saybolt, and Marlon "Duke" Powers, I promise to not mangle your names in future columns. I just missed meeting up with Dave and Ginnie Plitt over President's Day weekend. They had gone down to Texas for Steve and Larissa (Salazar) Coffey's wedding on 19 Febraary. Steve and Larissa have been with BUPERS in Tennessee for the past couple of months and will be on their way to join the May class of SWOsters. Congratulations and best of luck to the both of you.

Moving on down towards Marine-land, best wishes to our Classmates in Alpha Company, who are going through their war right now, with graduation scheduled for 2 June. Members include PC Hudson, Alan Szczepek, John Garcia, VJ George, Garth Burnett, and Nate Boaz. Also graduating this month are former Echo Co lOCers.

Pat Cantwell, Todd Sanders and John Hey will be heading out to Hawaii while Buster O'Brien, Alex Gilbert and Ryan Gilchrist are on their way out to 29 Palms. I'm not sure where the others are going, but I'll let you know as soon as I find out.

Many apologies to Tonio DeSorrento and Kevin Navas. In the Jan-Feb column I had listed their MOS as combat engineers. They are in fact field artillery officers. Tonio should be heading to the 1/10 down in Camp Lejeune, NC, while Kevin is on his way to the 1/12 over in Kanehoe Bay, HI. Congratulations and best of luck to you guys.

I had the chance to speak briefly with Kathy Storm the other day. She is curtently down in Jacksonville, FL, on HUE CITY and living with Amy Mills. Amy is attached to SPRUANCE (DD-963). Also down in Jacksonville is Danielle Lukich who is the Intel Officer for the VS-24 Vikings Squadron.

On the aviation side, I had the great opportunity to speak with Justin Griffin and Jason "Woody" Woodward, who are living together and going through Primary down there in Corpus Christi. Also living with them is Jeff Rogers. Between the two of them, they managed to name some of our fellow Classmates who are down in Corpus with them: Mike Albus, Doug Booher, Jeb Cole, Mason Allen, Katie Burch, Jason DeGroot, Adam Smith, BJ Spozio, Chris B r i a n a s , Nate Rodenbarger, Sean Quirk, Josh Bohach, Dave Neall, Brad Gihoy, and Brad Trosclair.

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Woody reported that Kevin and Erin (Miller) Meehan are now over in San Diego enjoying married life and looking to buy a house.

Bill Couch writes to us with an update: My wife, Shawna, and I just got our wedding photos, so I'm attaching one to this message. I hope you receive it okay. If you have room in the next issue, I'd love to share the news with everyone else. We were married at her church in Beloit, WI, on 3 July 1999. Everything worked out wonderfully, and it was great to have so many friends and family members join us on our special day.

We lived in Arnold, MD, while I worked TAD in the admissions office. Working for Don Nelson was quite an adventure. I'd swear the man never stops working. We finally moved down here to Pensacola at the beginning of December I was supposed to start flight school on 22 December but there is a huge backlog of pilots down here.

The average wait to start API is 12 weeks. I know this because I am working in the flight management office, which supervises the pool of officers waiting to class up. The weather down here is great, and I'm sure that when it gets a little warmer the beaches will be beautiful places to relax. I hope this finds you well. Take care!

Over in San Antonio, Lane Askew reports in with names of several Classmates joining him in Navigator training at Randolph Air Force Base: Eddie Salazar, Pete Parbel, Marvin Park, Aaron Shulski, and Scott Coonan.

All the pictures in this issue are sent to us by Lane and Carrie Busch. They were able to visit Morocco during basket leave and sent us a picture to commemorate the occasion. In the next picture Lane took a break from the sunny weather of San Antonio to visit his family in Berwick, PA. The group picture is from Sarah Hert and Brian Hall's wedding on 27 May 1999 at the Chapel. Also at Brian's wedding, but not included in the picture were Nate Shull, Matt Markham, Jeremiah Shafer, and Kate Oliver. The last picture is given to us by Carrie commemorating Scott Mericle's wedding on 5 June 1999, in Poulsbo, WA.

Lane Askew and Carrie Busch enjoying the fine Mamakech cuisine

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Rounding things out for us is my former roommate Amanda Bomgen. She made the drive from "Virginia Beach via Columbus, OH. to Whibdey Island safely and without any mishaps, thanks in part to her new Jeep Cherokee Sport.

That's all die news for this montiis, folks. Thanks for keeping me updated and keep those letters, emails, pictures and phone calls coming. I love hearing from everyone! As our one year graduation mark comes and goes I leave everyone with this final thought: "This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it."

Take care and God bless, Minh-tu

00 Pres: Murphy McCarthy Vice Pres: Art Terry Treas: Nick Lalota Sec'y: Tim O'Connor 317 N. Pleasant Ave., Ridgewood, NJ 07450 e: ShipmateOO@yahoo.com Welcome to the first edition of the Class of 2000's column in Shipmate. Service selection has passed us by and by the time you are reading this, we will be blowing offâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;I mean through, our finals and getting out of here. Over the past four years, we definitely have left our mark on the Academy, and the damage is far from done. We'll start our reunions in a couple of years where we can come and laugh at everyone who gets fat and goes bald. If things go as planned, they will dwarf two for seven...A scary thought. Well anyway, for future reference, this is how service selection for the Class of 2000 panned out.

Civil Engineering Corps: Christopher Lankford, Kenny Lin, Stephen Padhi, David Rautenbach, Christopher Velasco Crypto: Tertance Dickman, Gary Olivi, Jennifer Schaller Intel- Alexi Jonopulos, Christopher Landon, Kristene Newberry Interservice Transfer (Air Force): Gregory Boschert, Dennis Woodfork Medical: Terrence Anderson, Steven Banks, Jeremiah Burnett, James Demitrack, Ryan, Gocke, Michael Gordon, David Heltzel, Tommy Landers, Brian Legendre, Kathryn McMahon, Jeremy Moore, Hunter Stolldorf, Jason Yoder Navy NFO: William Alcocer, Patrick Baker, Christopher Barker, Jennifer Barnes, Michael Beard, Gregory Benton, Patrick Bemhard, Douglas Bollock, Lona Brooks, Thomas Burfield, Leonard Burke, Erica Butler, Kevin Cahill, Justin Canfield, Melissa Carter, David Cooper, Jonathan Crawford, Daniel Delacraz, Chad Donnelly, Adam Drayton, Christopher Dudley, Todd Duez, John Elliott, Charles Fairbank, William Fairweather, Jonadian Fay, John Plodder, Charles Ford, Anthony Fracci, David Fry, Jeremy Gates, Joshua Gillespie,

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Brian Glaser, Marcus Gobrecht, Jared Goul, Aaron Griffieth, Shane Groover, Zachary Guerta, Bryan Gunkel, Christopher Hahn, Rick Hartis, Heather Hess, Angela Hill, Daniel Hoffman, Aaron Hon, Bryan Hopper, David Huber, Blake Jackson, Mathew Janczak, Jimmy Karam, Jason Kast, Joseph Kato, Daniel Kitzmiller, Christopher Knaus, Matthew Lachapelle, Michael Looysen, Angela Marino, Doug Martin, Brendan McAndrews, Brett McDaniel, David McElyea, James McHugh, William McKinney, Connor McLemore, Kevin McLenithan, Scott Menzies, Joy Miller, Michael Miller, Anthony Moore, Matthew Morgan, Marc Morhack, James Mullen, Adam Page, Nicholas Panos, James Pappas, Alan Patterson, Joseph Pommerer, Cory Pope, Christopher Purcell, Kevin Quirino, James Reeve, Chris Roesgen, Garrett Rowe, Joshua Rupert, Brit Saboe, Matthew Schlarmann, Scott Schuetter, Zuben Sharma, Rachel Shropa, Ryan Stofferahn, Michael Strauss, Clinton Surbrug, Christopher Sutherland, Wade Thames, Erik Thomas, Richard Tom, Jesse Walsh, Dennis Watkins, Douglas White, Clayton Wilson, Leonard Wise, Benjamin Yeager Navy Pilot: Matt Abbot, Christopher Abbott, Jeremy Adams, Michael Aiena, Michael Albrecht, Lesley Alexander, William Allen, John Anderson, Phillip Arambura, Timothy Atherton, Peter Avalos, Lucas Babbitt, George Baker, Todd Barrett, Ian Bass, Hugh Batten, Benjamin Becker, Athena Beidleman, Jeremiah Binkley, Ryan Blomeley, Daniel Boncich, Christian Bowens, Robert Braham, Christopher Branch, James Brassfield, Christopher Brenner, Todd Brittonharr, Eric Bromley, Jason Brotherton, Anthony Bruno, Michael Bryan, Jason Budde, Kale Buonerba, Eli Burleson, Robert Bums, David Burtoughs, John Burtoughs, Jimmy Lee Burruss, Tra Calisch, Donald Calkins, Seth Carlone-Hanson, David Carmel, Adam Cawlfield, Marshall Chastain, John Chemycz, Matthew Chester, Kevin Chlan, Michael Cisek, Jeffrey Clark, Michael Coffey, Matthew Cole, Jeffrey Colvin, Chris Comstock, Andrew Conner, Shawn Conniff, Shannon Corey, Donald Costello, Charles Coursey, Jessica Crawford, Andrew Crish, Daniel Crowley, Kelleigh Cunningham, David Davis, Matthew Davis, Philip Day, Bobby Dempsey, Christopher Dentzer, Napoleon Deveaux, David Donohue, John Duarte, Ryan Duffy, Theodore Dyckman, Danielle Ehmer, Marycarla Erausquin, Zachary Farrar, Michael Ferrara, Joshua Filbey, Justin Fisher, Ryan Fulwider, John Goffrier, Christopher Goodwin, Brandon Griffiths, Bryan Grubert, Joshua Guerte, Jason Gustafson, Joshua Halfpap, Joshua Hamel, Robert Hanvey, Benjamin Harrington, Barnet Harris, Michael Harris, Erica Hayes, Timothy Heisey, Kevin Henderson, Elizabeth Henning, Mark Hermanson, Corey Hesselberg, Damon Hildebrand, Cade Hines, Kenneth Hockycko, Jeffery Hollenbach, Douglas Howard, Thomas Hoyt, Timothy Huber, Roger Huffstetler Travis Inouye, Ricky Jarboe, Dennis Jensen, Frank Johnson, Elizabeth Johnston, John Kaheny, Erick Kammeyer, Michael Kay, William Kayser, Chip Kelleher, Joshua Kelley, Shannon Kelly, Chris Kendrick, Peter Ketterer, Will Kirby, Mitchell Koch, John Kollar, Eric Krause, Timothy Kuehn, Robert Lang, Benjamin Langis, Brian Lauber, Peter Lauder, Trevor Laughter, Nicolas Leclerc, Michael Lee, Kyle Leslie, Eric Littie, Brian Lubitz, Shaun Lynch, Gregory Machi, John MacNaughton, Shannon Magnan, Michael Manicchia, Andrew Mariner, Joshua Marino, William Mathis, Travis Mattera, David Mayor, Philip Mazzara, Tertence McAdoo, Patrick McBride, Joseph McCauley, Andrew McGinly, Jamie Mcllvain, Scott McKinney, Jerry McMahon, Kevin Meinert, Lester

Melanson, Ryan Merrell, Andrew Moan, Steven Mondy, Peter Morgan, Jarrod Mosley, Timomy Myers, Andrew Neboshynsky, Matthew O'Brian, James O' Donovan, Sean O' Lone, Bart Ort, George Ortiz, Manuel Pardo, Eddie Park, Jessica Parker, Drew Pearson, Christopher Pelton, Robert Perez, Cynthia Persinger, Elizabeth Peterson, Paul Petsu, John Pianetta, Todd Pike, Robert Poggio, Robert Powell, Tavis Powell, Albert Prebula, Brian Puskas, John Randazzo, Tara Refo, Michael Register, Timmy Rhatigan, John Rhodes, Charles Robbins, Ryan Roberts, Guilford Robinson, Nathan Rocklein, Kelly Rogers, Ian Rogge, Jacob Rosales, Adam Rosensweet, Richard Runge, Aaron Schmidt, Keith Schroeder, Lucas Scoggin, Jeremy Shamblee, Aaron Shiffer, Leroy Shoesmith, Timothy Shubzda, Keith Simms, Patrick Singleton, Bartett Smith, Larty Smith, Christopher Snyder, Nathaniel Spurt, Victoria Stattel, Brian Stephens, Gary Stephens, Zane Stickel, Augustino Suafoa, Kelly Taylor, Alexander Tereshko, Eric Thompson, Hunter Thompson, James Thurston, Eugene Trelles, John Turl, Matthew Ventimiglia, Matthew Vernon, Jason Walker, James Ward, David Wegmueller, Frank Weisser, Chadwick White, David Whitmer, Lynden Whitmer, David Wilcox, Matthew Wilkening, Robert Wilkerson, Elizabeth Worley, James Yoder, Mark Zematis Oceanography Officer: Matthew Henigin Special Operations: Thomas Bowen, Andrew Cook, Theodore Foster, Christopher Hart, Joanna Helm, John Laney, Shaun Lieb, John Pinto, Christopher Rose, John Tobin, Robert Wheat Special Warfare: Christopher Carter, Andrew Ceniseroz, Jonathan Cerrito, Bradley Geary, Jelani Hale, Stephen Holley, Eric Hu, Justin Legg, Timothy McGeehan, Kurt Muhler, Mark O'Connell, Jason Pace, Michael Shoemaker, Michael Uyboco, John Waggoner, Joshua Wynn Submarine Warfare: George Adams, Choi Won Ahn, John Armstrong, John Augenblick, Alexander Baerg, David Barnes, Jonathan Beard, Joseph Bobrowski, Benjamin Britt, Brandon Brown, Karl Brown, Todd Bruner, James Bullard, Garrett Burkholder, Rory Caheriy, Ralph Cahill, Price Chadwick, Jeffrey Chapman, Jonathan Chase, Joshua Collins, Chris Czaplak, Jeremy Czeschin, Damian Davis, Derek Dryden, Patrick Elveram, Eric Engelbrecht, Ryan Fair, James Farrow, William Filip, Thomas Flaherty, Ray Foran, Ryan Frommelt, Nathan Gammache, Grant Garcia, Ivan Garvin, David George, Adam Glenn, Carlos Gomez, Benjamin Gompf, John Gonser, Stuart Gott, Travis Haire, Eric Hardisty, Joel Hartel, Kostas Hatzidakis, Heath Heist, Michael Herlands, Stephen Hershman, Zachary Herzberger, Jeremy Hite, Matthew Hoffmann, Daniel Hudson, David Hummell, Ronald Ibbetson, Jason Israel, Larty Kane, Maurice Karagiorgos, Erik Kjellgren, Gregory Klos, Robert Laird, Christopher Larson, Christopher Lindenau, Erik Lundberg, Cass Madson, Lael Matthews, Joseph May, Joseph McGraw, Matthew Miner, Michael Monaghan, Roger Montgomery, Seth Morgan, Nathan Mote, Timothy Newberry, Thomas O'Donnell, Hans Otten, Brian Peithman, Weylin Piegorsch, Joshua Powers, David Pray, James Prouty, Jesse Pmett, William Roberts, Mark Robinson, William Rodriguez, Kenneth Roman, Christopher Roscetti, Jonathan Ross, Wamen Ross, Aaron Running, Justin Sarlese, Andrew Schaper, Clark Scharman, Stuart Schneider, Logan Schulze, Brian Scrabeck, Bradford Sharpless, Eric Shea, Matthew Shook, Michael Slavik, Steve Sollon, Eric Sonnenberg, Stephen Stage, John Stevenson, Jeffrey Stewart, Ryan Stier, Paul Stites, Steven Stivers, Thomas Stone, Steven Tarr, Trent Templet, Michael Thomas, Scott Thompson, Craig Toney, Wade Tomyos,

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Hendel, Ryan Hough, Charles Jindrich, Grace Kelly, Stephen Mackey, Jason Martin, Patrick Marvil, Murph McCarthy, Thomas Mondoux, Scott Montgomery, John Moore, Jedd Mosher, Roy Nicka, John Norman, Elizabeth Okoreehbaah, Chris Oliver, Derek Oliver, Matthew Page, Omar Peralta, Kyle Pitman, Molly Salness, Kyle Shoop, Patrick Sise, Michael Slatt, Devin Smiley, Erik Sprague, Matthew Sproat, Kevin Szepe, Daniel Thompson, Thomas Trimble, Scott Weinpel, Nicholas Wineman, Adam Winslow, Justin Woodraff, John Wray Wow, you thought Jagman was a lot of typing.

Send me information, the Class would love to know when Murph McCarthy makes LCDR, Jay Collette makes Petty Officer, Todd Bruner gets his Budweiser, Ryan Stier makes Colonel, or Dianne Zamora gets paroled. If you get married, have kids, get promoted, or stationed back here at the Academy as a Company Officer send it in. That way we can come back to Annapolis and tell all your Mids the trath about your Academy career (No one is safe...) If you have anything less significant, but particularly interesting or entertaining, (within the realm of decency) get it to me. Pictures included. Stuff like that is going to be what you look for in Shipmate magazine. And if I don't get anything to submit, I'll just make stuff up. Either way, we are going to try and make this as entertaining as possible. This is the best way to get and keep in touch with each other Please make any submissions to ShipmateOO@yahoo.com. I will be checking that and working with the Alumni Association to get submissions in as often as possible. Good luck, and for you Marine selectees, leave your flashlight off. -Tim O'Connor

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Los Angeles Lakers, the NBA Los Angeles Clippers, and the NHL Los Angeles Kings. In addition to telling us all about the development of the Staples Center, which was constructed in 18 Dr. Roy A. Smith III '73 months, after going through a six plus year per530 Bayhill Ridge Circle mitting process, John informed us of the plans for Hoover, AL 35244-3338 the Los Angeles Coliseum and how an NFL team h: 205-979-8070 might be lured to the LA area. His boss, who is the email: RoyS5564@aol.com owner of the LA Kings and developed the Staples e: jnatter@gorham-waIdrep.com Center, is also the power behind the Coliseum development. John also took time to tell stories from his last Navy assignment, which was technical adHuntsville Chapter visor for the movie "Top Gun." John was an F-14 CDR Robert J. Sampson '56, USNR (Ret.) pilot and graduate of Top Gun. He was on an 100 Bailey Station admiral's staff in San Diego when the admiral was Madison, AL 35758 assigned the task of providing the advisor for the h: 256-881-9333 movie. Being the junior Top Gun graduate on the e: robertsampson@mindspring.com staff, the assignment was given to John. His stoThe March meeting of the Huntsville Chapter ries about making the movie kept everyone laughwas held on the second Thursday of the month at ing for quite a while. It also led to his becoming a civilian and going into the real estate development the Fogcutter restaurant.

Attendees were: Bob Brown '49, Tom Cogdill business in the LA area. John is an outstanding '60. John Harvilla '54. Ed Jackson '58, Al Mor- speaker and provided one of the best programs we ris '50. Bob Sampson '56. John Snyder '47, have had in a long time.

Fritz Steiner '57, Mike Stroop '54, Bill Watts Alumni attending the luncheon included: Bud '38, Herb Woods '56, and Hector Negroni '61 Brown '40, Art Vamum '40, Gordon West '40, Ken USAFA. Klofkorn '43, Bob Rubel '44, TR Johnson '47, Most of the conversations at this meeting cen- Mort Richardson '50, John Snyder '50, Al Enderle tered around personal interests; Al Morris has sold '52, Dave Grover '53, Si Kittier '53, Bob Lowell his plane (and bought an ultra-light for fun), Tom '53, Joe Zebrowski '53, Harold Hussey '56, Joe Colman '56 is headed to South American, Bob Koch '57, Jim Paulk '57, George Watts '58, Joe Brown '49 is trying to locate the source of an un- Keeley '59, Dick Banister '60, Danny Musselman usual email he received, Hector Negroni has started '60, Richard lee '62, Skip Storey '65, Bob Johnson on a new medical procedure to relieve knee pains, '66, Dave Josephson '66, Bill Cray '67, Tim the plus and minus attributes of ADM Hyman Hoffman '67, Pete Thompson '67, Dale Quinlan Rickover '22 surfaced (well, maybe more mi- '72, John Semcken '78, Lee Cohen '82, Steve nuses), and the primary status of various candi- Shatynski '83, Tom Kymn '84, Joe Mandichak '89, dates for President.

Mike Sweeney '90, and Pres McCormick-West Come join us if you are in the area.

Point '90. We heartily welcome first time attendEd Jackson '58 ees Bud Brown '40 and Richard Lee '62, and Edjacksonl @Mindspring. com welcome back after a long absence from our gatherings Bob Johnson '66, Dave Josephson '66, Tim Hoffman '67, and Dale Quinlan '72. We regularly have over 30 at our luncheons and welcome many more to participate in our outstanding programs. We meet the second Tuesday of every ARIZONA month except December Anyone who is not presArizona Chapter ently attending the luncheons or on the mailing list, please contact Joe Koch '57 by phone at 714-773Mr. William D. Morrison '57 1090 or by email atjwkoch@pacbell.net. As you 11801 E. Juan Tabo Road can tell from the attendees, our participation spans Scottsdale, AZ 85255 in excess of a 50-year period of the Academy. h: 408-585-1867 e: BILLMORR@USWEST.NET Joe Koch '57

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CDR Alan B. Lerchbacker '74, USN (Ret) 131 E. Holly Street #213 Pasadena, CA 91103-3936 e: alan@horizongot.com Cort. Sec'y: Joe Koch '57 February 2000 Orange County Luncheon The Orange County Luncheon Group met at The Revere House Restaurant in Tustin on Tuesday, 8 Febraary 2000, for our monthly gathering. Our speaker for the month was John Semcken '78, a real estate developer in the downtown Los Angeles area. John has recently been the project manager for the new Staples Center sports complex in downtown Los Angeles, which is home to the NBA Shipmate, May 2000

CDR John J. Branson Jr. '50, USN (Ret.) 1281 Sylvan Road Monterey, CA 93940-4942 h: 408-375-8603 e: JJBransnjr@aol.com

Sacramento Chapter CW4 George R. Simmons '61, AUS (Ret.) 10785 Penstock Trail Auburn, CA 95603-9556 h: 530-888-0860 e: gsim@aub.com

San Diego Chapter LCDR Robert L. Rubin '82, USNR 10214 Rue Touraine San Diego, CA 92131-2230 h: 619-695-1622 w: 619-271-5807 e: rabin@nosc.mil http://www.san.rt.coni/alumni/ February Luncheon We were honored to have CAPT John C. "Jack" Ensch, USN (Ret.), a former Naval Aviator as our guest and speaker We'll relate a bit of Jack's ties to and honorary USNA Class membership a little later Jack's last active duty tour was as CO of the Naval Training Center and that is where many of us got to know him. Upon retirement Jack found and eamed the ideal job of getting paid for hanging out at a ballpark all day. The path to such a great job though went through the Hanoi Hilton.

Jack is living proof that good things eventually come to good people.

The topic of Jack's discussion was the San Diego Padres and the new ballpark. Jack works for the Padres who are officially the Navy-Marine Corps team in San Diego. His title is. Director of Military Marketing. In his detailing of the Padres support for the local Navy-Marine Corps units here most of the audience was astonished. The following are just a few of the Padres community support actions. Each year the Padres host more than 5000 Marine recruits, each sailor returning from deployment is also hosted with provisions for family attendance as well and the Padres will make provisions for any sailor or marine to ship over at home plate before a game as requested.

Some specifics about the new ballpark were presented. The most unique is that all seats are facing and directed to the infield rather than simply facing straight ahead.

As to Jack's USNA ties, he was Mugs McKeown '61's RIO for a deployment when they bagged two MIG 17s with Sidewinders. Since those days, Jack has become an honorary and well deserving Classmate. Thank you Jack for many things and for making a great presentation.

Those attending Jack Ensch's presentation were: Fred Clarke '39, Art Fischer '39, Ray Zoeller '39, Art Battson '44, Bob Coogan '44, Dick De Prez '44, Ralph Frame '44, Dave Henderson '44, Strat Wentworth '44, Ed Behm '45, Bob Gorton '46, Ed Ellis '46, Lou Guertin '47, Bill Ayers '48, Chris Christoph '48, Chuck Gorder '48, Jim Gammon '48, Dick Hoffman '48, Lloyd Jones '48, Bob Neely '48, Stan Counts '49, Robair Mohrhardt '49, Dean French ' 50, Lee Bolt' 51, Andy Kremm '51, John Tillson '51, Dick Dietz '52, Bob Morris '52, Wifl Hays '53, Hugh Webster '55, Pete Hekman '58, Chuck Smith '58, Jan Cook '58, Jim Cartwright '59, Joe Keeley '59, Ing Kiland '59, Dallas Boggs '60, Larry Boyer '60, Ron Brandquist '60, Bob Byrne '60, Bill Evans '60, Ben Hallowell '60, Bill Lloyd '60, George Marburger '60, John Schmidt '60, Jack Shaw '60, Bob Stevenson '60, Don Grinnell ' 6 1 , Mugs McKeown ' 6 1 , Ed Oleata '61, Myron Fleming '62, John Kelly '62, Charles Helsper '63, Chet White '63, Cecil Boyd 127

'66, Warren Millard '67, Randy Bogle '68, Dick Evert '68, Tom Hammons '71, Jim Loiselle '71, Jim Ward '71, Jim Blasko '77, Mike Keeney '77, Drum McNaughton '78, Rich Cariquist '80, Randy Fariey '80, Alan Portillo '80, Tom Stein ' 80, Steve Streightiff' 80, Chris Boblit' 81, Chris Cooke '81, Bob Rubin '82, Craig Ryniewicz '82, Mark Williams '82, Mike Midgley '85, Rick Dansey '86, Jim McNeal '86, John Kyle '87, Don McKay '88, John Ross '88, Daniel Baulig '93, Tom Dobbins '83, Alex Chehansky '95 and a half dozen guests.

San Diego Submarine Centennial We recently received a schedule of events for The Submarine Centennial activities here in San Diego.

Here is a short list of past events and we'll identify those occurring from this publication date onward.

During the month of April, a Submarine Centennial Exhibit was opened aboard the century old STS Berkeley of the San Diego Maritime Museum (SDMM). The exhibit will stand for a year. The exhibit was expected to be opened on or about 14 April with appropriate ceremonies including a tolling of the bells for each submarine lost. It is also planned to have, operations permitting, a submarine and/or DSRV moored at the SDMM along Harbor Drive.

Future events will include a reunion of NAUTILUS (SSN-571) sailors from 29 September to 1 October San Diego's Fleet Week, 13-22 October will highhght the Submarine Centennial and we have been apprised that an SSN will participate in the parade of ships through San Diego Bay. Please see http:// www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpaUb/ships/submarines/sub lOO.html for a more complete schedule of events.

Business and Career Networking Forum Our forams are held on the second Friday of every month (7:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m.) at Amber's on Miramar Road at the 1-15 interchange (Miramar Road and 1-15) just to the east of MCAS Miramar.

(Amber's was formerly The Bread Basket.)

Amber's is located in the Holiday Inn complex (9355 Kearney Mesa Road, Phone: 858-689-7305) and there is plenty of parking. This is a joint service foram/network in company with the West Point Alumni group from here in San Diego. Air Force Academy grads are also participating.

The foram is a great place to drop off a business card or two or even a "flyer" describing your services. For $5.50 (cash - no checks, and if you can please bring the exact amount) you get all of the networking described above plus juice, coffee, pastries, muffins and assorted fraits.

Our Networking Coordinator is Dave Fennell '87. He is keeping up the work search/networking database for the Chapter and area. If you would like to be included send the following information to David: Name, Occupation, Company, Address, Phone (Work and Home), Email address, and What kind of work you are searching for! Dave also has some fresh new ideas that were discussed at the most recent Officers and Directors Meeting. Get in touch with Dave if you are considering a career change or looking for a new career or a new job.

Email to: fennelld@mindspring.com Or, mail to Dave at: Bradley-Mortis, 4225 Executive Square #390, La Jolla, CA 92037.

SD Chapter Online For access to chapter information, scheduling, and issues of interest, please check out our interactive homepage at: http://www.san.rr.com/ alumni/). For items such as last minute luncheon reservations, etc. please call our hotline at (619279-USNA) The information is updated frequently, but if you have a question please ask. There is a lot of other information of both standing and short-term importance.

Don Grinnell '61

San Francisco Chapter CDR Richard A. Voytek '77, USNR lOOWestElCamino, 61 Mountain View, CA 94040 h: 650-962-0622; e: mongov@aol.com www.navysfo.org Secretary: Linda Postenrieder '82 e: Post82@pelicanassociates.com h: 415-759-9413 The dark ages are over, and in Annapolis all thoughts are tumed to graduation. Here on the West coast, we have been very busy. Before I begin with what we have been doing, I want to make sure that all members of the Chapter check the Web site (www.navysfo.org) for the upcoming annual meeting and election of officers. Date/time/nominees to be announced.

The San Francisco Bay Area Chapter, with an impressive list of leaders in the high-tech industry, is bustling in the heart of the Information Revolution! On 3 Febraary 2000, in a new effort to build a focused business networking initiative for those of us in the high-tech sector, the San Francisco Chapter kicked off the High Tech Interest Series (HTIS). John Dillon '72, president and CEO of Salesforce.com, is the visionary behind the series.

Working in conjunction with a local Service Academies networking group, the Chapter drew 35 attendees, including company CEOs, CTOs, owners, presidents, VPs, directors and engineers. The discussion was lively and energized. Hundreds of local alumni are driving in the high-tech industry here and around the world. Our efforts to provide improved business to business and individual networking are just beginning!

The USNA Alumni among the attendees were: John Dillon '72 (Salesforce.com), Linda Postenrieder '82 (Pelican Associates, Pres.), Tom Jones '72 (Stratasource, CEO/Pres.), Gary Griffiths '72 (Everdream, CEO/Pres.), D. J. Crane '72 (Navegator, Principle), Anita Flynn '82 (Micropropulsions, Pres.), Pat McKim '76, Steve O'Roiu-e '86 (Everdream), Manny Banera '81 (Sun Micro Systems), Jim Boland '88 (Space Systems Loral), Bob Burt '81 (ABB), John Cunliffe '73 (Bectel), Alan Czeszynski '88 (Space Systems Loral), Scott Evans '74 (Lam Research), Tim Hofacre '89 (TTC), Steve Ingram '73 (Perot Systems-TX), Mark Lundstrom '86 (Space System Loral), Mike Megeath '90 (Luster), Mike MoIIer '66 (ABE Technologies), Phillip Mortill '66 (O'Brien Kreitzberg), Pal O'Connor '59, Craig Rasmussen '65, Dave Schrader '80, Don Seyk '64 (Seyk Associates), Dan Smalley '89 (YOH), Jack Sramek '62 (Rexall), Matt Sturges '89 (Clicknet), Brian Sullivan '89 (Paul Capital Partners), Tom Victory '88.

The next HTIS event will be in late April, watch the SF Chapter Web site, www.navysfo.org for details.

Rick "Voytek '77

"It was how bad in Annapolis?" L to r: Eugene Dente '48, Chip Seymour '65, Craig Rasmussen '65 and Dennis Vied '60

L lu i: Linda Postenrieder '82, Chip Seymour '65, Craig Rasmussen '65

Santa Barbara Chapter CDR William J. Stewart '63, USNR (Ret.) 1617 Las Canoas Road Santa Barbara, CA 93105 h: 805-962-0703; w: 805-963-1863 e: tenbears@silcom.com Sad News Bob Newcomb '40 has just found out that his Classmate and our friend, CAPT Neil H. Fisher '40, died last December; Bob understands from Neil's wife, Freda, that there was a military ceremony with a chaplain. All of our wishes are with his family.

Bill Britton '53 805-682-8590 billyboy@sb.net

COLORADO Colorado Chapter CAPT Daniel Branch Jr. '59, USN (Ret.) 555 Apollo Drive Boulder, CO 80303-5002 h: 303-499-0337;w: 303-966-4833 e: dbranchjr@aol.com Web site: www.mindspring. com/~usnaaacolorado/

CONNECTICXa Connecticut Chapter Robert R. Figura '58 Five Crescent Courtâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Box 3292 Groton Long Point, CT 06340-8112 h: 860-536-2206 e: Bob-Figura@prodigy.net http://www.usnact.org The Connecticut Chapter Membership Campaign "200 in 2000" is currently at the halfway point in achieving its goal (as of this writing, in late Febraary), Hopefully, we will be within hailing distance when this article appears in the May issue of Shipmate. To check membership status, see the published list in either the Chapter newsletter, or in the Chapter Web site at www.usnact.org.

The Chapter Networking program has been quite successful after only three months of operation. It is an active group of about 40 Alumni, split evenly between the Naval Academy and West Point, who participate in this new endeavor. As the news of the Networking group's activities spreads, it is anticipated that participation will continue to increase. As an example of some of the early business opportunities that have occurred, Jerry Shipmate, May 2000

Werner '71, reports tiiat he and Doug Wdson '77, are working together to help Paul Boyne '83 (USMA) with one of his clients. Jerty also points to other leads that have developed as well. Chapter Vice President Scott Blundo '92 has been acting as the host of the Networking meetings. Scott can be reached at 860-767-3969, or by email at pblundo @ snet.net.

The Nominating Committee for die Connecticut Chapter Officers for the 2000/2001 term, chaired by Dave Stryker '61 has issued its final call for candidates for office, to be elected during the Annual Business meeting in late June of this year. The positions up for election this year are president, secretary, and communications director These are all two-year terms and require only that you be a regular (paid-up) member If you are interested in being considered by the Nominating Committee for any of these positions, please contact Dave by 15 May at 860-536-3636 or email at ml8632@aol.com.

Both Trustee-at-Large Tony Marks '59 and Chapter President Bob Figura '58, plan to attend the Chapter Presidents Meeting and Board of Trastees meeting held back-to-back in Annapolis in midMay. After that, they plan to report back to the Connecticut Chapter Board during the Spring Board meeting, to be held on Sunday aftemoon, 21 May 2000.

There are two future events worth mentioning: 1. The 23 September Boston College-Navy football game bus trip is filling up. We already (in Febraary) have over 40 people who have put their names on the reservation list. Soon we will be collecting the money for the bus and game tickets, so watch for information in the June newsletter 2. We have been invited by the Connecticut West Point Society to join them for a special activity on 7 October This will be a "wine train" excursion, leaving Thomaston, proceeding to Litchfield, and touring the Haight Winery. Wine sarapling will take place on the train, and at the winery. There will be food and hors d'oeuvres, and the cost will be $35/ person. Look in the June Chapter newsletter for more details. You are being advised in advance since the train capacity is limited to 120 people, and the West Point Society of New York will also be participating. Our guess is that this will be a popular event, particularly since it will occur during a beautiful time of year in the Litchfield Hills.

3. Don't forget, that our focus activity this year is assisting the State Blue & Gold program. Connecticut Area Coordinator, Tom Maxwell will be looking for help during Career Days, and also for individuals interested in becoming full-fledged Blue & Gold Officers. Give Tom a call at 203-2720460 to become involved.

Dave Boyd '59

DELAWARE Delaware Chapter Frank S. "Nick" Carter III '70 Delaware USNAAA c/o Nick Carter PO. Box 266 Lewes, DE 19958 h: 302-644-4838; w: 302-645-2207 e: sumrtan@aol.com

FLORIDA Florida Heartland Chapter Steve McDonald '65 4900 Southwind Drive Mulberty, FL 33860 h:941-644-1332 e: navy65@bigfoot.com On Thursday, 16 March 2000 the Florida Heartland Chapter held their monthly luncheon at Peace River Country Club in Bartow, FL. In attendance were Mr. and Mrs. Bob "Clickety" Clack '44, Clayce Lamb '44, Mr and Mrs. Don Rockwell '45, Ted Johnson '45, Carl Strang '55, Jack Libbey '58, Emil Di Motta '62 and President Steve McDonald '65. A lively discussion of the Academy "then and now" ensued and many opinions were aired on where our alma mater is headed.

The up and coming Navy-Notre Dame football game in Orlando this year was discussed. Some of the members have already ordered their tickets and it looks like we will have a Chapter contingent cheering at the game.

Anne and Bob Clack '44 were wished a safe trip and following sea on their trek back to Kansas for the summer We welcomed a new member.

Hank Nieman '81.

Respectfully submitted, Emil Di Motta Jr '62

Fort Lauderdale Chapter Jeffrey Dale Welsh, Esq. '73 2805 NE 29th Street Fort Lauderdale, FL 33306 h: 954-564-5065; w: 954-564-6994 e: jdwelsh@southem-financial.com With the New Year, the Fort Lauderdale Chapter is back to a full social schedule. On a beautiful South Florida winter aftemoon, the Chapter had

its February meeting at the usual place, . 'lirttail Charlie's on 17 Febraary. The monthly cockta.: and dinner meeting takes place on the third Thursday of the month and the new location is: Shirttaii Charlie's, 400 SW 3rd Avenue, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33315; 954-463-3480. You can reach this waterfront establishment by boat or automobile and it provides a great venue to swap sea stories with your fellow local USNA grads.

This was the last meeting hosted by out-going Founding President Jeff Welsh '73 who will be enjoying a well-eamed rest. Jeff you did a superb job and we will miss your leadership style, dedication and attention to detail-Bravo Zulu.

At the Febraary meeting Jeff Welsh noted that Radenko (Randy) Stefanovic '80, will be the new president of the Chapter. Randy is a "Big Shot" with the Motorola Company and lives in south Florida with his beautiful wife, Patti and their son and daughter The USAF and USMC grads such as Bimey Pease (USAF), Joe Chopek (USMC), Rob Gillette (USMC), Sean Day (USMC) and Grady H. Roby Jr (USMC) were all wondering why it is that another "Black Shoe" got the Prez's job. The other new officers are as noted below: Vice President Rob Gillette '90 (USMC) Secretary Miguel Cintron '86 (USN) Government/Military Sean Day '94 (USMC) Executive Coordinator Greg Kolcum '88 USNAAA Liaison Officer Joseph B. Chopek '69 (USMC) Social Activities Officer Bimey Pease '63 Membership Officer Luis Sologuren '53 Thanks to the great job our VP Rob Gillette has done in selecting candidates. We pause here to offer a special thanks to Luis Sologuren who has stayed on as Membership Officer (a post that Luis Sologuren will likely keep for many years to come due to his outstanding performance). These events no matter how well planned, simply would not be as well attended and as much fun if it were not for Teniente Luis! Congratulations to the new officers and we wish you a fun and fulfilling tenure (of course, this is also a great resume builder). In addition to the new Board the Chapter is renewing its roster; please remember to send in your $40 membership dues if you have not already done so.

At this meeting Mn Grady Roby Jr. '79, a retired Colonel of Marines was presented as a new member, as was Mr. James E. Kunkel, a former

COSTA RICA Costa Rica Chapter Claudio A. Pacheco '64 Apt 4307-1000 San Jose, Costa Rica h: 506-224-4325 w: 506-256-3855 e: cpacheco@sol.racsa.co.cr

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"nukey boat" officer, who has the dubious honor or being a friend of Potsy Scoville '64. While James is a Purdue graduate, and a retired naval officer, the Chapter decided that since Purdue was one of the few remaining colleges that has not beaten Navy in football (OK-we have never played them), we all agreed to let him join our Chapter Additionally, the Ft. Lauderdale Chapter accepted the membership of Lisa Trackenbrod, Esquire, the lovely and brilliant General Counsel of Southern Financial Services (Jeff's firm). Lisa has her J.D. (you have to have those initials in your life to last with JefO and her MBA from SUNY in Buffalo, N.Y. We also had several snowbird visitors as well as a Marine, Joe Lopez, who works with Sean Day (by the time you read this article, Sean will in all likelihood have finished his service commitment and joined Civlant; way to go Sean, and Semper Fi]). Sean was a trae credit to the Marine Corps and we are sorty to see the good ones go to get rich in Civlant.

At this meeting, we also spent a great deal of time with Mn and Mrs. Raymond Yenchko '59 talking about their son LCDR Chris Yenchko who unfortunately graduated a "brand X" college (Notre Dame '88) as an ROTC man, and then became a SEAL. Chris also has an MBA form Hawaii Pacific ('97 with a 4.0 GPA). Like many of our Nation's best young officers, Chris left the naval service and joined the civilian world. Joe Chopek '69 mentioned that his son, LTJG Joey Chopek '97 had just finished his tour aboard BRISCOE where he was given two Navy Commendation medals, one as an end of tour award from ADM Hank GiflSn '67's office, (oddly enough, Joe Chopek '69 was a Plebe and Youngster in Giffin's 29th Company in 1965 and in 1966) and the other from LCDR David Frost '79, BRISCOE'S skipper Joey is on the way to WINSTON CHURCHILL as a "plank

officer." Joey and his beautiful wife, Dina, live in Chesapeake, VA. Also in attendance, were honorary members, Mrs. Evelyn and Mr. Dale Welsh, father and mother of Jeff Welsh '73, who shared dinner with us. M r and Mrs. Welsh, when questioned about Jeff's childhood were quick to point out that God works in mysterious ways. Mr. Welsh, senior, also pointed out that Old Irish proverb "Ye kin pick yer nose, by ye can no' pick yer kin." Anyway, one more BZ to Jeff and his crew for all of their help this past year.

Other USNA grads in attendance were Miguel Cintron '86 who is also covering as co-cortesponding secretary for our Chapter, Greg Kolcum, '88, Phil Fairman '47, Rob Gillette '90, Andrew Jones '85, Ken Koteles '80 Luis Solguren '53, Bimey Pease ' 6 3 , Victor Viglino '75 and Robert Tamborini '70.

Our goal is to have a busy social schedule in the months ahead: as of this writing, we intend to have the annual Army-Navy golf tournament in July and hopefully create a tradition of friendly rivalry with our neighbors who were unfortunate enough to attend West Point instead of our fine alma mater in Crabtown. May the best team (Navy) win! We also plan on attending the upcoming Navy-Notre Dame game in Orlando and, of course, to continue with our regular Shirttaii Charlie's outings.

Once again, Bravo Zulu to the Officers who are leaving and congratulations to the new ones. Beat Army! (inquiries to Joe Chopek: 954-527-8853, or jchopek@netresultsinc.com).

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Gainesville Chapter CAPT J. Michael Smith, '61USNR (Ret.) 10424 SW 41st Place Gainesville, FL 32608 h: 352-376-6611 w: 352-3763301 e: mickey@acceleration.net The Gainesville Academy Club met for refreshments and luncheon on 17 February at the Gainesville Country Club. Featured speaker was John Spence, President of Fulcram Alliance, a group dedicated to motivational training and lectures.

In preparation for a June date to speak to a select group of USNA Midshipmen for a leadership seminar, John agreed to share with us, the major points of his presentation. The theme of the discussion was the result of several years of research into and the summation of major traits and characteristics of US business leaders. Basically these are qualities universally shared among significant leaders of this century and can be built upon by aspiring naval service leaders and officers: 1. Dream Big Dreams: know your intended outcome, put in place the plans to accomplish and execute.

2. Embrace Risk: but understand what the risks are and minimize them.

3. Opportunity is Everywhere: keep an open mind to new opportunities and seize the chance to excel. Do what you like with people you like to be with!

4. Surtound Yourself with Good People: teams and teamwork are "in."

5. Attimde is Everything: at all times, make clear what you stand for: "3 c's" = competency, concem and consistency.

6. Life Long Leaming: great leaders are curious, they are constantly leaming from others, self improvement pursuits, etc.

Summary These are the characteristics wanted in Leaders: a) Honesty b) Visionary c) Inspiring and d) Competent. This discussion was very well received and several inputs were suggested by the attendees for tailoring the presentation for the Midshipmen. Attendees were: USNA-Al Vito '44, Hart Stringfellow '48, Leo Cannon '53, John Smitherman '53, Rick Childress '54, Jim Zimmerman '54, Miles Mixon '58, Larry Reid '58, Josh Dickinson '59, Joe Phelan ' 66, Skip Manasco' 70, Sam Mutch' 71 and Ty Tyler '76; and USMA: Charley Hall '46,Tom McBryde '46, and Lee Pardi '62.

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Jacksonville Chapter CAPT Michael O. Boms '70, USN (Ret.) 1185 SaU Marsh Circle Ponte Vedra Beach, FL 32082-2543 h: 904-273-4714; w: 904-693-5630 e: usnaaajaxchap@usa.net The January luncheon was held at the River City Brewing Company in Jacksonville on 11 Febraary. Those in attendance were: Lisa Arato '88, CDR and Mrs. Ray Ashcraft '74, Bill Bailey '72, Tom Barry '65, Joe and Marian Bonds '45, Mike Borns '70, Elynor Brown, Dr and Mrs. Bruce Brunson '48, Joe Bryan '45,CAPT and Mrs. Bill Carrier '45, Bob Crowell '34, Evelyn Decker, CAPT and Mrs. James Dunford '39, Ann Farmer, Bobbe and RADM Tom Faulders '46, Joel Febel '60 and his wife, Marilyn McAfee and their guest Stephanie Febel, Dave Fisher '53, Christel and Don Fisher '49, CDR and Mrs. Bill Flannery '44, Jacquiline and Eugene Ford '76, Patricia and Tom Fortson '47, Beatrice and Pat Gray '40, LCDR and Mrs. Searle Highleyman '51, Curt Hingson

'70, Naomi Kigeri, LCDR and Mrs. Charles King '82, Marquita and Don Miller '44, R A D M Suzanne and Bob Mills '42, CAPT and Mrs. John McCabe'59, Lyn and Griswold Moefler '42, Eleanor and VADM Joe Moorer'45, Mike Mundt '83, Charles Pendleton '43, Betty and Bob Phillips '46, Dr. and Mrs. Stephen Potter '66, John Ryder '48, Kate and Bob Schauffler '45, Ann and RADM Bill Smedberg '51 and their guests Becky and VADM Al Burkhalter '51, Mn and Mrs. Ray Stanton '59, Mary Love and Gray Strum '41, Katherine and Charles Styer '41, Mrs. and RADM Henry Ulrich '72, Frances Vissering, Penny and Ed Waller '74, Betty and Dave Ward '45, and Cynthia and Bob Zvacek '66.

This was the kickoff event of the calendar year with a Valentine's Day theme. The attendees filled the room overlooking the south bend of the St. Johns River to capacity. The group enjoyed a sunny and warm gathering of friends.

Joel W. Febel, '60

Miami Chapter Neil C. Sapp '62 1172 South Dixie Highway, Suite 505 Coral Gables, FL 33146-2918 305-447-7658 e: neiIsapp@aol.com Sec'y: Alfred A. Bunge '88 e: aabunge@aol.com

Naples-Fort Myers Chapter Eugene Lawler '47 5601 Turtle Bay Drive #1504 Naples, FL 34108 941-597-8089 e: bvonier@mediaone.net Vanderbilt Country Club was again the venue for our 22 Febraary luncheon meeting. Our speaker, Wayne O. Smith (USAFA '65), and five year resident of the Hanoi Hilton, inspired us with his talk about how his war-time experiences related to a successful business management careen As he shared a common wall with John McCain '58 he was also able to comment on the strength and inspiration he and other prisoners received from John.

In addition to spouses and guests, the following Alumni attended: Mike Ahrens '56, John Alburger '71, Roy Anderson '52, John Bailey '44, Edward Beane '47, Edwin Bell '39, Steve Berger '57, Roger Belts '56, Lee Catalano ' 5 1 , Paul Corrigan '48, Jack Cummings '47, John Driscoll '44, Vem Dupy '47, Earle Forsthoff '47, Steve Gutiiman '58, Wally Hankins '47, Charles Henry '52, Grover Higgenbotham '35, Robert Knowles '45, Gene Lawler'47, Glen Leram '58, Ray Lessig ' 5 1 , Herb Mandel '38, James Mintun '59, Ned Oldham '58, Mike Pedersen '79, Ragan Phillips '59, Tom Pollak '61, Richard Rogers '37, Tom Ross '50,' Allen Ruth '59, Milton Tolman '53, Bill Vonier ' 5 1 .

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Our meeting of 22 March at the Vineyards Country Club, featured speaker ADM Kinnaird McKee '51.

Gene Lawler, President 5601 Turtle Bay Drive # 1504 Naples, FL 34108

Orlando Chapter CDR Jeffrey D. Hall '83, USNR 33 Winsor Isle Drive Longwood, FL 32779 h: 407-805-9485 e: jhall@fedsig.com

Palm Beach Chapter CAPT John A. Butterfield '59, USN (Ret.) 1130 Sugar Sands #190 Riviera Beach, FL 33404 h: 561-881-7512 w: 561-840-1104 e: jbsgma@aol.com The 23 Febraary luncheon was held at the Ballen Isles Country Club. Our thanks to Jack Shirrefs '59 for being our host at this beautiful location.

The food was outstanding, served in a bountiful buffet, and the Club restaurant was an elegant setting enjoyed by all. President John Butterfield '59 conducted a brief business meeting after the luncheon, and then we convened to a conference room, where President Butterfield acted as moderator for a panel discussion on "Ethics and the Naval Academy." The panel included two distinguished members of our Palm Beach Chapter, Dick Boverie '54 and Jack Shirreffs '59, and CAPT Robert Bedingfield, USN CHC (Ret.) Bob Bedingfield served as the Senior Chaplain at the Naval Academy 1977-1980, had a number of tours of duty with the Marine Corps and curtently spends more than half the year as the Chaplain at the Mariner Sands Chapel in Stuart. Dick Boverie had a most successful career in the Air Force, and Jack Shirteffs served in the Marine Corps and had a career as a management consultant for Dupont. The topic for discussion was of vital interest to our members, so there were many questions posed to the panel who presented a very informative dialog on the many challenges facing the future development of Midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy. "rhose present were: John Becker '35; Bernard Bennett '43, Jean and Bill Brown '71; Irving Bobrick '49; Anne and George Bole '54; Richard Boverie '54, Priscilla and John Butterfield '59, and their guests Bob Bedingfield, Joel and JuUe Jacobs; Dottie Coney (widow of Charles Coney '19); Addison Douglas '45, Ken Duckworth '62; Sean Fuller '89, Peggy and Hank Gorman '44; Betty and Al Haworth '57; Carl Keske '59; Robert Lees '69; Alan Mayer '45; Nelson McDermott, Jr. '46; Jane (widow of Donald O'Meara '39); Art Osgood '44, John Shirteffs '59; RADM and Mrs. Swoose Snead '47; Nancy and Robert Tisdale '46; Bettie (widow of Harvey Vogel '40); Donald Welt '47; Diana and Walt Whipple '57; Natalie and Joe Wilson '47; and guest Gary Farinacci.

We need our members to be active and duespaying, so please send in your $15 annual dues if you have not done so already to our Treasurer Bob Lees '69, 110 Wood Lane, Defray Beach, FL 33444. If you need any information or want a "pep talk" about making sure you are a member in good standing with the national USNA Alumni Assoc, call our President at the above number He will be happy to answer all your questions and/or concems.

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institution that helped shape all of us, as well as encourage our young men and women to consider the Naval Academy.

Walt Whipple '57

Pensacola Chapter CAPT Glenn H. Montgomery '71, USN (Ret.) 1152 Ceylon Court Gulf Breeze, FL 32561-3214 h: 850-934-4757 e: monty4gb@aol.com Our most recent luncheon was a pleasant success with representation covering five decades of graduates and several candidates for the class of '04. Our speaker was the Commanding Officer of the Naval Aviation Technical Training Center, Captain Ron Jaeh, who spoke about his perspectives of our young Americans as they transition into the Navy as enlisted aviation technicians. His enthusiastic portrayal of the curtent state of our youngsters was heartening.

Among the attendees were Marcy Dupre '42, "Doc" Gulledge '42, Gordon Hillberg '42, Jim Allen '44 and Bridget Kenny, Sara and P.B. Wall '44, Dean Axene '45, Carol and Bob Clancey '45, Don Gairing '49, John Brick '50, Frank Liberato '51, Bill Campbell '52, Lamar Dixon '52, Bob Fellingham '52, Bill Hippie '52, Lou McMillan '52, Mark Tuzo '52, Larry Grimes '55, Skip Furlong '56, Jan and Jack Horsefield '57, Chet Carroll '68, Suzy and Glenn Montgomery '71, J.R. Knight '76, Skip Krause '79, Dan Brady '82, and Angela Brady '83. The Class of 1952 retumed to the honor of most well represented. Our senior grad honor was shared by Marcy Dupre, Doc Gulledge, and Gordon Hillberg of the Class of 1942, while the junior grad represented was our hard working secretary Angela Brady of the Class of 1983.

We would encourage other Chapters to invite local area candidates to a luncheon to give them a perspective on our instimtion. The feedback we have received from the teenagers who have been guests at the last few meetings has been very positive.

Our early congratulations are extended to the members of the Class of 2000 as they complete four years along the banks of the Severn. Fair Winds and Following Seas as you enter careers in service of our country.

Glenn Montgomery '71

Space Coast Chapter CAPT Peter C. Peterson Jr. '56, USN (Ret.) 401 Third Avenue Melboume Beach, FL 32951-2537 h: 321-952-2066 e: peteusna@aol.com

Suncoast Chapter Clifford P. Bermann '45 7472 Cass Circle Sarasota, FL 34231-7034 941-921-3111 e:amorency@aol.com Members and guests of the Suncoast Chapter met for lunch on 10 Febraary 2000 at the Venice Yacht Club. Hosting for the luncheon was Lou Kessler '50 and his lovely wife, Kay. It was a typical sunny Florida day with a beautiful view of the Intracoastal waterway. We do not have any Dark Ages in Floridaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;all sunny!

After cocktails and a delicious lunch, our guest speaker, Mr William Chaney, Director of Corporate Gifts for the USNA Foundation, discussed the

importance of outside donations to help 'pecial programs for the Academy.

Several questions were presented to Bill about lack of communications concerning entrance to the Academy. Hopefully this will be cortected.

The next luncheon will be at the Isles Yacht club in Punta Gorda on 13 April 2000.

Attending the February luncheon were the following: David Hinkle '54; from Bent Tree, Jean and Jack Oberrieder '48; from Bradenton, Jackie and Lee Haines '45; Jessie and Bill Petrat '45; June and CB Stephenson '45; Pat and Jim Moss '47; Ann and Dan Kenney '57; Jay Grafton '60; from Longboat Key, Bettye and Chuck Boyer '53; from Nokomis, Ruth and Paul Richards '46; from Osprey, Mimi and Brad Welles '58; from Parrish, Robert Kowall '60; from Punta Gorda, Rodger Betts '56; Alex Schwan '80; from Sarasota, Lou Davis '41; John Frazier '42; Annadele and Snuffy Jackson '44; Kathryn and Bill Kurtz '44; Bill Olsen '44; Anne and Jim Tench '44; Cliff Bermann '45; Genevieve and Pete Perkins '45; Helen Piombino '45; Bill Strong '45; Harker Collins '46; Eva and Jim Cummings '46; Ellie and Fred Tiemann '46; Nan and Mark German '47; Joy and Ralph Thicker '47; Dick Ambrogi '48; Mary Virginia and Jim Morency '49; Tom Ikeler '50; Tom Dyer '52; Bob Montross '54; Alice and Jim Holds '59; from Sun City Center, Jerry Engle '41; from Venice, Betty and Bruce Rohn '40; Pat and Dick Southwell '47; Elsie and Phil Vladessa '49; Kay and Lew Kessler '50; Richard Welsh '50.

Dick Ambrogi '48 Corresponding Secretary

Tampa Bay Chapter Ms. Kristi W. Hendricks '92 3905 Rolling Terrace Lane Valrico, FL 33594 w: 813-662-7325 e: khendricks@kpmg.com Hail and Farewell The Tampa Bay Chapter had a casual social event at the home of Connie and Miller Detrick '63 on Saturday, 12 February. Bud Alexander '56 gave a presentation on the inside story behind the production of the television series "Men of Annapolis." As part of the presentation, he showed scenes from some of the old episodes. It was a great presentation, and everyone had a great time. In attendance were Bud and Barbara Alexander, Kit and Mike Bolier '67, ADM and Mrs. Roy Collins '56, Pat and Don Coughlin '62, Frank Davis '64, Barbara and Bob Flynn '58, Sherty and Don Freese '63, Kristi '92 and Bryan Hendricks, Donna and Mike Jacqmin '63, J.O. Johnson '90, Marcia and Mark Krivonak '71, Mn and Mrs. David Long '86, Terry Silva '73, Brett Sturken '86, and Jeff Tomeo '80. Thanks to Miller and Connie Detrick for the warm hospitality.

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The Tampa Bay Chapter invites all USNA Alumni and spouses to participate in the sixth annual Tampa Bay Army-Navy Golf Match on the afternoon of Thursday, 4 May 2000, at the Bardmoor Golf Club, Largo, FL. Registration will be at 12:00 p.m. with tee times commencing about 12:45 a.m. Help us keep the trophy in Navy hands.

The entry fee of $60 covers golf and a barbecue buffet following the match. Entry deadline is 24 April. Information and entry forms are available from Bud Alexander '56, 727-526-3646, email budalxandr® aol.com.

We are always looking for more ideas for social events, and as usual, would appreciate the input from all Alumni in the Tampa/St. Pete area, including visiting Snowbirds. Chapter meetings are usually held on the first Wednesday of each month at 5:30 p.m. Starting in April, the board meetings will be held at Champions Sports Bar at the Tampa Westshore Marriott at the comer of Westshore and Cypress. For more information, please contact Terry Silva '73, 813-281-0560, ext. 236 or Mark Krivonak'71, 813-963-5519.

GEORGIA Atlanta Chapter CDR Robert P. Bush, III '65, USNR (Ret.) 4103 Madison Drive ;, Atlanta, GA 30346 ' h: 707-351-0008 e: bobbush65@mindspring.com Web site: http://members.aol.com/usnaaaa/ usnaaaa/ Atianta is sad to report that our previous Chapter president, Mike Donohoo '65, has stepped down. He transferted out of Atlanta to an opportunity in the North Georgia Mountains; he did a great job invigorating the Chapter and we will miss him.

All is not doom and gloom however We welcome Bob Bush '65, another '65er and previously our vice president, as our acting president. He has accepted the responsibility with enthusiasm. He even led us in a moving rendition of Blue and Gold at our last luncheon. The other lunch patrons at the crowded sports bar obviously felt a little empty when they realized their "symbol hue" was no match for the mighty Blue and Gold.

Lee Remmel, a 1969 graduate of West Point and a twenty-year veteran, gave an interesting and informative presentation to the assembled Alumni at the Febraary luncheon. Since 1997 Lee has been the Airport Director of the DeKalb Peachtree Airport (PDK), the second busiest airport in the state of Georgia. PDK, a designated "reliever field" for Hartsfield Atlanta Intemational Airport, is curtentiy undergoing an expansive and somewhat controversial multi-year/multi-million dollar land acquisition program. Lee discussed the future of PDK and provided his insighlts into the aviation industry in the Atianta area.

The following Alumni took time out of their busy schedule to join us at the Febraary luncheon: Bill Rentz '55, Mike "Ice-Man" Herger '90, Bob Bush '65, Hap Walker '46, Bob Schultz '71, Jim Ravenel '45, Bill Wideman '35, Ginger Wideman, John Cumberland '44, Maybell Cumberland, Steve Frederick '72, Dick Fitzgerald '62, Mike Miller '56, John Stark ' 5 1 , Gil McCuUen '53, Joe Grantham '46, Brian Huey '90, Jerty Ashcroft '94, Anne Ashcroft '93, Will Wood '66, Dave Hunter '65, Jim Slemenda '66, Susan Slemenda, Glenn Brewer '51, Jim Hatch '47, Brian Pilger '93, Maverick Bollwerk ' 9 1 , Dirk Mosis '73, Carl McCallum '60, Bill Callaway '60, Ernie Matacotta

'82, Woodie Vaughn '64, Ron Sedgley '69, and Alan Miller '61.

As always, any visitors from out of town are welcome at our luncheons, which are held on the third Friday of each month at noon. Our luncheon location is the Jocks N' Jills Sports Bar and Restaurant at 4046 Peachtree Road NE, in Brookhaven, a few miles northeast of Buckhead. You can readily pull directions to the luncheon location, as well as other Chapter information, from our Web site at http://members.aol.com/usnaaaa/usnaaaa/ index.htm.

Bill Bollwerk '91

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GUAM Guam Chapter LCDR Noel M. Enriquez '84, USNR PO. Box 26849, GMF Baniguda, GU 96921-6849 h: 671-477-4382; hfax: 671-472-1966 w:67l-6499629 wfi 671-649-8870 e: nmenriqu@ite.net

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was held at the Banayans (formerly the Pearl Harbor O'Club). More than 50 Alumni and their guests enjoyed the great performance of the Glee Club.

After singing and passing along their "Aloha" for the local support, they grabbed their box lunches to eat on their way to the next singing engagement at a local high school. The young women were a real credit to the Academy and caused all in attendance to have renewed confidence in the quality of the young men and women that make up the Brigade.

Aloha, Harvey Gray '52

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RADM John W. Townes '72 III, USN •* 517 Russell Ave., Suite 100 Pearl Harbor, HI 96860-4884 e: townesjw@hawaii.navy.mil http://members.xoom.com/hawaiialumni The USNA Women's Glee Club traveled to Hawaii as a group on their spring break. They flew at their own expense. Their twelfth performance, and second from the last in Hawaii was at the monthly luncheon meeting on Friday, 17 March. The Hawaii Chapter of the Alumni Association meeting

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CDR Frederick W. Weber, USNR '75 2134 Evert Court Nordibrook, IL 60062-6612 h: 847-559-9381; w: 312-750-8899 e; fredrick.weber@rosshardies.com Chapter Breakfasts: Western Suburbs.

The first Westem Suburbs breakfast of the millennium was held on 14 January at the Naperville Holiday Inn. On hand were Ken Smith '73, Mark Rahmel '73, and Brian Bandarra '84. This was Brian's first meeting. He lives in Wheaton and was in the Supply Corps after USNA and an enlisted stint in subs. Previously with LensCrafters, he is exploring new opportunities in senior level sales and marketing. Welcome, Brian! Westem Suburbs breakfasts are held on the second Thursday of the month at the Naperville Holiday Inn just south of Route 88 at Naperville Road. Show up at any time between 7:00 a.m. and 8:45 a.m.

Downtown.

Our first Loop Breakfast of the new millennium was attended by Dean French '50, John Scully '69, Fred Weber '75, and Scott Edmiston '85.

With the basketball season in full swing and the political scene heating up, there were plenty of things to talk about. We would like to see more of you loyal loopers attending the breakfast to exchange business cards, network and discuss things that we have in common. We meet at the Wall Street Deli on the SW comer of Randolph and the Chicago River on the fourth Thursday of each month between 7:00 a.m. and 8:45 a.m. Drop by any time and catch up on what's happening.

The fourth Thursday of Febraary found a large group to hear Steve Maconi from the Naval Academy Fund. Steve is the Assistant Director of Major Gifts and was in town to meet with Alumni and Naval Academy supporters. The Class of '60 was very well represented at the breakfast, they had their own little mid-winter reunion. The attendees from the Class of '60 were Jim Baker '60, Walt Land '60 and Jim Kinney '60. Also in attendance were: Dean French '50, John Howland '64, John Scully '69, Robert Grossman (representing the loyal opposition on the Hudson) and Fred Weber '75, and Joe Wright '85.

Northem Suburbs Northern Suburbs breakfasts are held on the first Thursday of every month at Denny's, located in Vemon Hills on the northwest side of the intersection of Milwaukee Ave. and Route 60.

Coming Soon Check the Chapter newsletter for the latest details re a career night and a familiarization visit to Battle Stations at Great Lakes Naval Training Center Blue Angels In August Here's an early heads up as you think of warmer days and plan your summer: the Blue Angels will be performing in Chicago next summer on 19 and 20 August. More details to follow, but their entire 2000 schedule can be found at http:// w w w . d e f e n s e l i n k . m i l / n e w s / D e c 1999/ bl2071999_bt558-99.html.

The Chicago Chapter In Cyber-Space You can also get curtent Chapter information on the Chicago Chapter Web page. The URL is http:/ /www.kellogg.nwu.edu/student/club/va/usnaaa.

John G.B. Howland '64 MoneyMinds @aol. com

LCDR Charles A. Rainey '84, USNR 12804 Double Eagle Drive Carmel, IN 46033 h: 317-815-0575 e: crainey@fhlbi,com

Greater Southern Maryland Chap; Jack Pappas '61 PO. Box 154 Dowell, MD 20629-0154 h: 410-326-5496 e: jpappas@erols.com http://www.navyalumni.org

Michiana Chapter CDR John T. Haizlip '72, USN (Ret.) 15246 Longford Drive Granger, IN 46530 h: 219-273-2939 e: CHaizlip@aol.com

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Frederick J. Sheehan Jr. '78 160 Burkhall Street #609 Weymouth, MA 02190-3533 h: 617-337-3712; w: 617-572-4562 e: fsheehan@jhancock.com The Boston Chapter rung in the holiday season early and in style by hosting and toasting Navy's KENTUCKY great win over Army on 4 December at the Offic(see also Ohio) ers Club at Hanscom Air Force Base in Bedford, Louisville/Southern Indiana Chapter MA. The Chapter sponsored a buffet and open bar and invited members, families and friends. Over CDR Gregory R. Reinhardt '79, USNR thirty people attended. It was a great time with 712 Talon Place much food, drink and mertiment.

Louisville, KY 40223-5575 h: 502-244-7707 Flags were paraded and push-ups were exhibe: airlgxr@ainups.com ited as the game progressed to the sea wartiors' satisfaction. The highlight of the party was a halftime auction of Academy mementos and memorabilia including a signed football jersey of Roger Staubach '65. Auctioneer Mark McVay '86 organized the auction. The funds raised were for the LOUISIANA benefit of the Chapter SE LA/SW MS Gulf Coast (Formeriy Attendees included Ted Edson'54 and Jack '61 New Orleans) Chapter Edson; Polly and John Wild '55, Dan O'Connell '57, Norm Cahill '57, Ingrid and Brad Stumcke CDR Rex A. Bent '76, USN (Ret; '58, Tom Moylan '60, Diana and Doug Zanzot 229 Blue Crane #1 '63, Alex Daunis '63, Pete Seibert '65, Mike Slidell, LA 70468 Field '66, Bill Neill '75, Chapter President Fred h: 504-847-9862 Sheehan '78, Will Gildner '80, Mary and Terry e: Rexuspa@compuserve.com Kraft '81, Chris and Mark McVay '86 and Jake Hinz '92.

CDR Joseph A. Grace Jr. '80, USNR Don't forget the service academy networking 15 Allard Blvd luncheons which are held on the last Tuesday of NewOleans, LA70119 every odd month at 12:00 p.m. in the conference h: 504-486-9040 room of the law firm of Nutter, McLennen and Fish, email: jgrace@notc.org on the 16th deck, One Intemational Place, Boston.

Note the change in frequency and day of the week.

They used to be held every month except December. The next meetings scheduled are 28 March, MARYLAN 30 May, 25 July, 26 September and 28 November, Annapolis Chapter 2000. Usually, we have a featured speaker. AnyCAPT Howard J, Tim" HaMidaj (.â&#x20AC;˘'Âť, USN one interested in attending these luncheons should contact Sam Sichko '79 or his assistant Nicole (Ret.) MacLean at 617-367-2202 ext. 370 or email at 1203 Chrisland Court SCSichko@PLT-Law.com at least two days before Annapolis, MD 21403 the luncheons. h: 401 267-8546 e: tim.haliday@usna.com Peter K. Seibert '65

Baltimore Chapter LCDR Steve G. Young '84, USNR c/o Legg Mason 600 Washington Avenue #200 Towson, MD 21204 w: 410-821-7700 e: SYoung@LeggMason.com

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St. Louis Chapter CAPT Douglas K. Rush, '72 USNR (Ret.) 9 Lenox Place St. Louis, MO 63108 h: 314-361-5262 j lohman @ bspmlaw.com John Kane '44 (jckanejr@juno.com) has put together a list of Chapter member names and their respective email addresses. If you are not sure whether you are on this list, then please contact John so that he can be sure to add you.

We have members who attend our events from as far away as Springfield, IL and Springfield, MO. Please keep your eye on the U.S. mail and the email for more updated information from our Chapter President, Doug Rush '72, regarding the golf tournament this month, the picnic at the end of the summer, the all-Academy women's soccer toumament in September/October and Founders Day Dinner in October Also, we are attempting to compile a history of U.S. Navy activities in this part of the country, dating back to the war between the states.

BEAT ARMY at the upcoming golf toumament!

NEBRASK Omaha Chapter CDR Jeffrey S. C u r r i 2513 Sheridan Road Bellevue, NE 68123-1965 h: 402-682-9601; w: 402-294-4 e: jcurter@earthlink.net Parade the Colors

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MICHIGAN Detroit Chapter Arthur W. Bryant '66 1811 Hollywood Grosse Pointe Woods, MI 48236-1311 h: 313-885-2174; f: 313-881-2333 e: lynorart@flash.net The Detroit Chapter held its Febraary luncheon on the 17th at the splendid, little-known Henry Ford Fairlane Estate Pool Restaurant. In attendance were: Jim Hanford '59, Bill Penn '63, Mark Schramm '72, Gary Rheam '72, Fred Botero '80, and Dave Galiyas '82. A great time was had by all, including a fascinating discussion on the loss of the Scorpion.

The schedule for Chapter luncheons for the rest of the year is as follows: Thursday 18 May Detroit Club Friday 16 June Guy Hollerins (Ann Arbor at Holiday Inn-North Campus) Wednesday 19 July Hogans (Telegraph north of Maple/15 Mile) Thursday 17 August Ten Eyke Tavern (Dearborn Inn)

Friday 15 September Detroit Club Friday 13 October Guy Hollerins Thursday 16 November Hogans Friday 15 December Henry Ford Fairlane Estate Pool Restaurant All lunches begin at 11:30 a.m. Please RSVP to Charlie Schott '85 (chukshot@hotmail.com)

MINNESOTA Upper Midwest Chapter Darrel Gonyea '61 1053 Peninsula Point Road Shakope, MN 55379 W: 612-882-1112 e: GONYEALAND@aol.com

Mr. Bradley Carlson '91 2246 Darwin Circle Henderson, NV 89014-3105 h: 702-433-7248; w: 702-433-2100 e: BCarlson@goidc.com

N E W JERSEY Monmouth County Chapter LtCol Robert L. Vogt '59, USMC (Ret, 50 Polly Way Middletown, NJ 07748-3189 h: 732-671-9330; w: 732-530-8444 e: Bob.Vogt@telos.com

MISSOURI Kansas City Chapter LCDR Lynn A. Thomas '83 1404 Stonecreek Drive SW Blue Springs, MO 64015-8838 h: 816-228-6766 e: LynnTW@aol.com

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I said, "I think it is." He said, "Well, I don't like to brag.

But we're kinda proud of that ragged old flag.

"You see, we got a hole in that flag there When Washington took it across the Delaware.

Albuquerque Chapter Maj Donald Rohr '55, USAF ( 4804 Northridge Place NE Albuquerque, NM 87111-2104 h: 505-294-4048; fi 505-844-594 e: rohrdf@sandia.gov

N E W YORK Capital District Chapter

"And it got powder bums the night that Francis Scott Key Sat watching it and wrote, 'Oh, say can you see'.

And it got a bad rip down in New Orleans, With Packinham and Jackson a 'tuggin' at its seams.

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LCDR Thomas M. Owens^ USNR ' 8 ^ 205 Colonial Avenue Albany, NY 12208-2404 h: 518-446-9278 e: owenst@bsk.com

Metro New York Chapter RADM Henry F. White Jr., USNR '68 P O . Box 800 Bronx, NY 10471-0800 718-549-2177 e: hfwhite@iicl.org Chapter Hotiine: 1-800-234-USNA Web site: www.NAANY.org

Western New York Chapter CAPT Nelson A. Blish '69, USNR (Ret.) 3840 East Avenue Rochester, NY 14618-3729 h: 716-248-9739 e: NeIsonAB@Kodak.com

N O R T H CAROLINA_ Charlotte Chapter Bryan Delan '71 5629 Laurium Road Charlotte, NC 28226 h: 704-364-6451 Well troops, I really do not have a lot this time.

Hopefully you were able to attend the Wine Tasting Party in March, sponsored by Nancy and Andy Green '88.

Peg and I were in Palm Desert in January and had the pleasure (again) of seeing "The Palm Springs Follies." This is a trae professional stage review show with a choras line, lots of music, dancing, comics and variety acts. The one thing special is that all performers must be at least 55 years old!

The producer. Riff Markowitz, is an unabashedly proud patriot. The finale of the last act of this almost three-hour show is always a very patriotic, red, white and blue extravaganza with special effects galore. To me the highlight of the number was the recitation by the Mercer brothers, Bud and Jim (long time song and dance men who are 86 and 82 respectively), of the following, entitled the "Ragged Old Flag."

1 walked through a county court house square.

On a park bench an old man was sitting there.

I said, "Your old court house is kinda run down."

He said, "No, it'll do for our littie town."

I said, "Your old flag pole has leaned a littie bit And that's a ragged flag you got hangin' on it."

He said, "Have a seat"...and I sat down.

"Is this the first time you've been to our little town?"

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"It almost fell at the Alamo...beside the Texas flag, But she waved on tho'.

She got cut with a sword at Chancellorville, And she got cut again at Shiloh Hill.

"There was Robert E. Lee, Bouregard and Bragg, And the south wind blew hard on that ragged old flag.

On Flanders Field in World War One She got a big hole from a Bertha gun.

She tumed blood red in World War Two, And hung limp and low a time or two.

Oh, she went to Korea and Viet Nam. She went where she was sent by her Uncle Sam. "She waved from our ships on the briny foam.

But they just about quit wavin' her back here at home.

Yes, in her own good land here she's been abused.

She's been burned, dishonored, denied and refused.

"And the govemment for which she stands Has been scandalized throughout the land.

Oh, she's gettin' threadbare, and she's wearin' thin; But she's in good shape for the shape she's in. '"Cause she's been through the fire before And I think she can take a whole lot more.

So we raise her up every mom, and take her down every night.

We don't let her touch the ground, and we fold her up right.

"And on second thought, I do like to brag, 'cause I'm mighty damn proud Of that Ragged Old Flag."

With sincere and heartfelt thanks to Bud and Jim Mercer performers in "The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies" for 2000. Not a bad way to end a show I thought.

Remember the monthly lunches at Sheraton Four Points.

Tom Hutchins '51 cthmph @ bellsouth. net

Piedmont Triad Chapter LtCol Gary L. Beaver '77, USMCR 10 Silver Oak Court Greensboro, NC 27455 h: 336-299-4736 e: Gbeaver@AdamsKIeemeiencom The Chapter finished the 20th Century with another successful year of activities. Our June Week East Outing was again held at Bryan Park on 26 June 26 with 40 Alumni and guests attending. The Captain's Choice golfers got off to an early start, but in spite of frequent action with the clubs, managed to join the picnic group on time. The weather was good, the food was great and the camaraderie was excellent. No comment on the golf scores!

There were no Navy football games scheduled in our area this year, so we had to forego our usual tailgate party.

Our Fifth Annual Army-Navy Bash ' H d at Damon's Sports Bar was the most successful eat since the organization of our Chapter, especiuliy with a great Navy win. Over 60 Alumni and guests, attended to watch the game on four large TV screens and to enjoy Damon's excellent barbecue ribs. Navy fight songs were played after each score and we even heard a number of voices from the room helping Navy "Sail down the field to sink the Army Gray." A raffle of a number of Navy memorabilia items was held during half-time and added to the fun. Attendees were asked to bring a toy for the USMCR "Toys for Tots" drive and this resulted in several large boxes packed to overflowing with toys going to the local Marine Corps unit.

All in all, a great day for the group attending except for the four USMA graduates who were guestsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;they didn't enjoy the Mule Ribs which they were served. Among the attendees were: John Anthony '60, Jane and Gary Beaver '77 with Alex and Anna, Gary Brake '67, with son-in-law Chip Kiel, Jim Carolan '64 who was visiting from Salt Lake City, Faye and Stanley Carter '65 with his mother, Ruth, Robert Clark '85, Matt Felt '88, Michael Foumier '88, Joan and Bill Gregory '72, Bob Harris '67, Bob Kennedy '77, Mary and Gene Kesler '60, Doug Law '66 up from Myrtle Beach, Ruth and Ted Lide '49, Marjie and Wes Lindsey '49, Janis and Claude Lumpkin '65, Alice and Pat Love '72, Gayle and John Lyman '72, Rule and Russ Maynard '34, Jean and Ben McCubbins '54, Wanda and Baker Melson '70, Stephanie and Ron Morton '72, Mai Murray '60, Albie Pettinger '63, John Palmer '61, Suzanne and Jim Sarfest '88 with Elly and Kate, Barbara and Scott Sears '66, Jim Stinson '68, and Rick Sylvester '61.

Events for 2000 are already scheduled with the annual Dark Ages Party to be held at the Vineyards Restaurant in Winston-Salem on 26 February. The June Week East Outing will again be held at Bryan Park on 17 June. All Alumni and their families are most welcome at either of these events. Just let Gary Beaver '77 know at his email address listed above.

Triangle Chapter CAPT William K. Gautier '67, USN (Ret.) 116 Birklands Drive Gary, NC 27511-8203 h: 919-233-7255 e: WiIliam.Gautier@jcbradford.com http://triangleusna.home.mindspring.com/ On 4 February 2000, VADM Donald Jones (USN, Ret) spoke at the monthly Chapter luncheon.

His remarks touched on a variety of topics, including personal reminisces about working for Caspar Wienberger, John Lehman and Frank Carlucci. He spoke in particular about the difficulty facing recraiters today in the face of the booming economy.

Steve Wistener '89 was announced as a new board member for the Chapter at the February meeting as well.

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The following hardy souls attended the festivities: Steve Berninger '84, Mitch Mitchell '64, Vic Sharpe '48, Gary Chapel '61, Bill Gautier '67, Chuck Adams '63, Jim Callahan '48, Jim Mellencamp '48, Dick Kosiba '48, Chris Heath '72, Bill Smith '51, Charles Paddock '51, Bill DeHart '53, Jeff Jeffries '64, Tom Leiser '67, Helmut Feifs '66 and Stan Bashaw '81.

Don't forget that on 11 June 2000 the Chapter will host our annual cookout to meet the Midshipmen and new Plebes from the local area. Check the Web site for address information.

The Chapter meets for lunch on the first Friday of the month at Newton's Southwest, at the Harrison Street exit of 1-40 in Gary. For the latest information on Chapter events, check out our Web site at http://triangleusna.home.mindspring.com.

For membership information, call Mitch Mitchell '64 at 252-478-2850.

OHIO Cincinnati/Northern KY C h S ^ ^ Michael F. Simon '73 757 Maidstone Court Cincinnati, OH 45230-3827 h: 513-231-3174 e: msimon757@aol.com

Cleveland Chapter CAPT A.O. Rule III '50, USNR (Ret.) 90 Pheasant Run Chagrin Falls, OH 44022 h: 440-247-4379; w: 440-247-5100 x328 e: raleIII@aol.com

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Columbus/Central Ohio Chapter CAPT Roy O. Girod '53 USN (Ret.) (Acting Pres.)

1505 Ramblewood Road Columbus, OH 43235 h: 614 451-3696 e: Roy53@aol.com On 17 Febraary, at 11:30, the first meeting of the new millennium comme2nced at The Capitol Club, 41 South High Street in downtown Columbus directly across from the State Capitol. It was a luncheon 1 affair with members of the local West Point Graduates Society. Roy Girod '53 made the artangements. It had been two months since we met last in deference to our brothers in arms. We thought it appropriate for them to have a period of mouming in regards to the results of the latest Army Navy game. As the saying goes, "you can't be lucky all the time."

The luncheon speaker was Mr David Alderstadt, the Director for Veterans Affairs, The Governors Office. Those Alumni attending were: John Herlihy '48, Deke Lang '49, Art Friedman '51, Joe (Dartell) Hauser '51, Roy Girod '53, Jim Ramsey '60, Jerty O'Donnell '61, Dave Baker '63, Jim Cowardin '66, Russ Puppe '66, Peter White '67, Mick Taylor '68, Bill Fell '78, Bill Jividen '89, Matt Lightner '89 and Matt Ungerieider '89. The West Point Society was represented by 15 West Point Alumni. It was a great luncheon, followed by an excellent speaker At our meeting next month, we will conduct the annual election of Chapter Officers.

Ed Tipshus '54

Toledo Chapter Robert J. Lauer '45 3825 Sulphur Spring Road Toledo, OH 43606-2325 h: 419-536-4462; w: 419-475-2061 e: rjonlauer@aol.com The Toledo Chapter held its annual Dark Ages Dinner for grads and spouses/significant others.

Invitees included: Bob Lauer '45, Bill Clegg '48, Harry Morgan '49, Dick Eckert '51, Bob Lynch '55, Jim Black '56, Ortie Hiett '57, Waldemar Weber '59, Tom Case '61, Terry Wolfe '62, Dennis Veith '62, David Puckett '63, Larry Benson '64, Ron Henderson '65, Steve Kalosis '66, Ed Kerins '67, Gary Tabbert '67, Jim Loutzenhiser '68, Michael Donilon '69, Ted Wolfe '70, Chris Klueber '72 James Lash '73, Gordon MacDonald '73, Jeff Fort '74F Steve George '74, Gene Matranga '77, Roy Bookmiller '78, Bob Lakis '79, Tim

L to r: Dianne McMichael, Charlotte Lissy, Jan Kavale, Joe Kavale '68, Ken Lissy

Cummings '79, Mark Schreiber '79, Ray Van Guntin '81, Doug Kurtz '81, Jeff Walborn '83, William Thone '85, Tim Snoke '87, Michael Wooster '87 Mark Kutcher '88, Mark Bible '88, Samantha Maez '9IF Andrew Lahaie '94 and Jartod Marsh '96. Invited out-of-area guest was Ken McCally '55.

Finally, a football win over Army was the main topic of conversation.

OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City Chapter CAPT Charles C. Coley, '3 411 NW 14th Street Oklahoma City, OK 73103-3510 h:405-235-0234 e:cccusn@aol.com

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Tulsa Oklahoma Chapter CDR Harry V. Rouse IV '77, USN (Ret.) 2623 East 33 Place Tulsa, OK 74105-2334 h: 918-748-8650 e: HVRouse@aol.com

OREGON Oregon and Southwest Washington Chapter Doug Bomarito '68 16667 Glen wood Court Lake Oswego, OR 97034 h: 503-699-0003; w: 503-223-8285 e: harkins@computenorg Web site: http://usnaaa-or-swwa.homepage.com February Luncheon The Chapter met for our monthly Luncheon on 9 February at the Georgian Room Restaurant, in the downtown Meier and Frank. Attending the luncheon were: Lois and John Lobdell '43, Charlotte and Ken Lissy '45, Dave Beadling '48, Jack McCamont '48, Dianne and Jake McMichael '58, Butch Bewick '62, Joan and Jack Kohl '65, Lynda and Rich Wilmes'66, Genya and Gavin Arnold '66, Cecily and Alex "Tex" Harkins '67, Cal Meek '67, Jan and Joe Kavale '68, Dayton and Ray Miller '71, Mark Cooksey '71, Skip Phipps '73, Meriie and Bruce Thompson '73, Jennifer and Doug Cooper '86, Matt Wilson '90, Todd Washburn '93, Joe Santana and Elaine English No speaker was scheduled, and attendees were encouraged to bring spouses along so that we all could share an "Old Goat" early Valentine Day celebration. With musical selections being played in the background by pianist James Walls, everyone enjoyed the chance to enjoy the company of old Classmates and other Alumni. The door prize went home with Jennifer and Doug Cooper '86.

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L to r: Todd Washburn '93, Mark Cooksey '71, Cecily Harkins, Butch Bewick '62, Cal Meek '67, Alex (Tex) Harkins "67 Chapter Business Butch Bewick '62 informed the group that there would be 65 educators from Oregon, Southwest Washington, and Northern California attendingthe Educator Orientation Visit to U. S. Naval Academy.

Upcoming Special Event Alex (Tex) Harkins '67 annoimced that a special event had been arranged for the evening of 6 March . Our guest speaker will be Ernest "Emie" Brace, the POW who occupied a cell next to John McCain '58 in the Hanoi Hilton. Emie, a civilian under contract to the U. S. State Department was captured in Northem Laos, never declared as a prisoner, Emie spent a total of seven years and ten months in captivity. He has chronicled his time as a POW in his book A Code to Keep. Emie is Cochairman, along with Jake McMichael '58, of Oregon Veterans for McCain for President.

The Oregon and Southwest Washington Chapter meets for lunch the second Wednesday of every month at The Georgian Room Restaurant, Meier & Frank 10th Floor, Downtown Portland, 6th and Alder, at 11:30 a.m. Please join us. Call Doug Bomarito '68, (503-699-0003) or Alex "Tex" Harkins '67 (503-297-0246) for any additional information, or check our Web site.

Joe Kavale '68

PENNSYLVANIA Philadelphia Chapter Robert H. Bender '73 45 Grove Avenue Flourtown, PA 19031-1906 h: 215-836-7652; e: RBender'? aycorp.com http://USNAPHIL.COM 24th Annual Parent's Night: 'Diesday, 9 May, 6:30 p.m. /Vrea USNA Parent's are honored at this annual dinner This is a lively night where parents have an opportunity to test their lungs for Navy. The candidates for Class of 2004 will also have an opportunity to show us their Navy spirit. POC- Rob Bender '73, RBender@ParkwayCorp.com or 215575-4015 Sand Castle Winery Tour: Sunday, 10 June, 2:00 p.m.

We have scheduled a 45 minute group tour of the Sand Castle Winery nestled in the banks of the Delaware River, ten nunutes north of New Hope in B u c k s C o u n t y , P A . ( h t t p : / / www.SandCastleWinery.com). In the magic environment of the wine cellar you will leam about wine aging first-hand as you taste different vin-

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tages from the bareels and vats. Dinner plans with other attendees are encouraged before or after the tour. Cost: $10 - Tour and Wine Tasting (Dues-paid members: $7.50) RSVP by 26 May to Kelly Salmons '93 at KSalmons@RWD.com or 215321-2105 PA License Plates with USNA Crest ff you would like a PA License Plate with the USNA Crest, please contact Marius Jones '86 at MBJones8@aol.com or 610-363-0616. A one-time $20.00 fee is charged for each plate. This fee is separate from the annual registration renewal fee for the vehicle. We need a minimum of 300 to start the program. We only have 150 as of February 2000. Payments will not be deposited until 300 names are reached.

Upcoming Events sponsored by USNAAA of Philadelphia 9 May Parent's Night, WG NAS-JRB 8 June Annual Election Meeting, TBD 10 June Wine Tasting Tour, Sand Castie Winery 18 June Air Show and Pool Party, WG NASJRB 15 July 1st Annual Navy-Army Tennis, WG NAS-JRB USNAAA of Philadelphia events will be preceded by a mailing. If you would like to be added to the mailing list, please make sure you have mailed your $25 annual dues to Mike DeLorey '70, 505 S. Lenola Road, Suite 211, Moorestown, NJ 08057-9896. Anyone interested in helping to ran events throughout the year, please contact Susan Koye '83 at SMKoye@AOL.com.

USNAAA of Philadelphia Annual Elections Thursday, 8 June 6:30 p.m. Annual Elections for Officers and Directors of the Association. All members are encouraged to attend. Nominations should be sent to Paul James '81.

5th Annual Air Show and Pool Party The Air Show and Pool Party are back this year.

This is a free family event. Meet at the Officer's Pool to watch the Willow Grove Air Show from the pool. Bring your own picnic. Pool admission is free. Beer and Soda will be provided by the Association. Non-committed RSVP's requested for approximate head count RSVP to Paul James '81 at PauLJames @ Vanguard.com OR 610-666-1093.

1st Annual NAVY-Army Tennis Challenge: Saturday, 15 July 11:30 a.m.

Army would like Navy to whip them in tennis this summer We will have singles, doubles and mixed doubles competition. Tentative plans are to meet at the Willow Grove Orion Club to match up players. No fee to play or attend. We will use the Orion Club for refreshments before, during and after the matches. Info: Paul James '81 at Paul_James@Vanguard.com OR 610-666-1093

Job Networking Luncheons Monthly luncheons are held the first Wednesday of each month at the Chart House, Penns Landing. These joint luncheons with West Point have had great job placement success to date. The cost is $25 paid at the door for a complete lunch with salad, entree and desert. To reserve a seat email (call) Julian Toneatto '67 USMA at Adler@fast.net (856-757-0070) or Susan Koye '83 at (SMKoye@AOL.com) within one days of the event.

Southeastern PA Parent's Association The USNA Parent's Assn. (SEPA) President is Dindy Liebert (215-233-3253 or LiebertCO@AOL.com) and the Newsletter Editor is Joe Bartish '93 (609-722-4336 or JBartish @ quadnet.net).

Blue and Gold Officers Anyone interested in becoming a Blue and Gold Officer can contact Don McRae in PA at DonMcl@ AOL.com (610-449-9674) or Al Burt in New Jersey at Diamondl @BellAtiantic.net (609387-9202).

News Input Philadelphia Chapter news input for Shipmate should be emailed to Paul H. James '81 at Paul_James@Vanguard.com (610-666-1093). Information about the above events will be mailed throughout the year to dues-paid members. You are welcomed to send your email address to PauI_James @ Vanguard.com.

Pittsburgh Chapter William E. Otto '71 4105 Tartan Court Murtysville, PA 15668-1045 h:412-325-4281; w: 412-856-3500 e:Figaro4105 @ aol .comPhilippines

Philippines Chapter CAPT Rafael V. Dacanay '76, PN Apt. F5E JOQ Bonifacio Naval Station Makati City, Philippines h:63-2-894-4121; w/fi 63-2-815-3420 x6458 rvd76@yahoo.com Sec'y: LT Vincent Sibala PN & Isquo '93 Hydrographic Center, NISF Bonifacio Naval Station Makati City, Phillipines 63-2-843-1833 and 812-7416 e: nomu@cav.pworld.net.ph

RECREATIONAL VEHICLE li'll American ChapteF%==!®<L President: CAPT Jfam«5NrRSerts '§9, USN (Ret.) 152 Springlakes Drive Martinez, GA 30907 h: 706-860-6430 e: jrobe92528@aol.com Sec/Tres: Mike Stroop '54 138 Canterbury Drive Madison, AL 35758 h: 256-461-0774 e: wermanda@aol.com Habitat I have twenty applications for the Habitat Build in Plains that will take place in September 2000.

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Apphcations include a release that must be signed by each individual. It also requires a fee of $ 175 per person which covers all meals for the eight days, ff you need lodging, the fee is $350 per person. If you want to go let me know and I will send your application which you must sign and submit directiy to Habitat no later than 1 July 2000. Once the application and fee is received you are locked in and there are no refunds. Please indict on your appUcation that you are with the Naval Academy RV Chapter and do not require lodging.

This bush has been beaten severaltimes,but now is thetimefor action if you haven't done so akeady.

I must admit that I am a little disappointed even though it is only mid-Febraary as I write this. Vic Sharpe '48 and I are the only for - sures at this point and By Byington '54 is a possible but has a conflict that may not allow him to stay the entire week.

Over The Horizon If you haven't seen this on line yet you are really missing something wonderful. We are linked to the Alumni Association Web site or you can sign on directiy at www.clik.to/rvnews.

Many of you have thanked me and told me what a wonderful job I have done with this gift to the Chapter Now I want to go public and tell the world that I can not accept yoiu: kind words. It isn't my work. If you haven't been introduced formally let me have the pleasure. Meet the manâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Terry Sutherland '54

What I would like to do with the column is report after the fact and use the column to introduce our members. How about each of you sending me one picture of yourself with you rig. I'll publish two each month. Lets see, with eighty eight members and using two pictures each month I figure I'll be covered for the next 3.667 yews (slipstick math for any that can't keep up).

I happen to have two in my files so let's light this candle!

Jimmy "the boy" Connors '74 and his best friend.

He was in last month's column, but this is a different picture I need to do something with. Jim loves to "dry camp" but didn't know what it was until we explained it to him. This is a guy you should get to know. A silent hero in the world of WMD. Our children will need more like Jimmy Connors pictured here.

Terry Sutherland Terry Sutheriand, Classmate, good friend, buddy and creator of the Web. When we first met we both had trouble working a slide rale. Almost fifty years later he is a master of cyberspace and I still am having trouble with the slide rale, at least the log/ log/duplex or whatever that was. I am pretty good at the times and goes-into stuff and even can do square root. Just the other day I wiped out the square root of forty nine. It is 6.98 or there about just in case any of you need that. I really never understood what square root was good for unless we were getting an early start for questions on "Jeopardy. Square roots for two hundred Alex!"

Now that you have met Terry you should know that we will shift to his page for all future announcements. This is were you can go to be current with Chapter plans and who to contact for what. Shipmate has limited space and the two month lead time makes it unsat for getting that type of info out to the masses.

Our family from Starkville, MS. Sherty, Alex and Gerard "Skid" Rowe '82. Most of us have kids older than Skid who is an ex-Marine now Air Force Reserve full time fighter pilot instractor Alex has a sister that I didn't get in this picture. Skid and Sherry were sweethearts in grade school way back in 1968. Now doesn't that make some of us feel old!

Old sea stories are great and I'll never get tired hearing them, but you need to talk to the two guys above if you want to get into the modem age.

PS Send me a picture now, before you forget!

Anne and Mike Stroop '54

RHODE ISLAND Newport Chapter CAPT James M. Conway '55, USN ( 50 Ayrault Street Newport, RI 02840-2728 h: 401-847-5039 e: castleconw@aoI.com Our Leap Day meeting was held at the O'Club, where we enjoyed listening to VADM Tom Weschler '39 speak to us about Tall Ships Newport Salute 2000. Tom was originally set to be our April speaker, but graciously filled in at the last minute when our scheduled speaker had to cancel.

Nick Brown '56 has stepped up to fill the April gap, and will tell us about "New Approaches to Saving Old Things." Nick's perspective comes from his curtent position as executive director of Preserve Rhode Island, the statewide preservation organization.

Participating in the evening's festivities were: Sid Merrill '34 and Brown Taylor '34; Trina and Tom Weschler '39; Cathy and Tim Moore '45 and their guests Ethyl and Jim Kyle; Dorothy and Fred Stevenson '46; Bess and Doc Jex '47 and Wirt Thayer '47 and his guest Mary Soares; Jane and David Whelan; Maggie and Frank Snyder 48A; Tom Lyons '52 and Pud and Bob Connelley '52; Nick Brovra '56; Ben Katz '57 and his guests Ruth and Marty Brandt; Wayne Robinson '58, Paid Stiller '58 and Bobbi and Jim Wright '58; and Patty and Rob MacDougall '76, Betsy and Brian Ellis '99 and associate members; Bushy Henry (Gene Henry '39); Mary and Jack Burney '46 USMA; Mary Rae (Bill Rae '47) and her guest Dotty Bailey; George Smith; Herb and Mary Rommell and Fred and Carol Lantz.

Our evening started with a brief show-and-tell

by Rob MacDougall '76. Rob is the site manager of the inactive ship facility at Pier One and brought in several poster boards with photos of IOWA, SARATOGA and FORRESTAL. Rob also provided an

outstanding impromptu briefing on what's happening with those three great ships. IOWA will be departing our local waters shortly for a trip to San Francisco and will take over a mooring near Fishermen's Wharf, where she will be partly open to the public and partly in standby for possible future call to service. The City of San Francisco intends to utilize lowA as a disaster command post in the event of a major earthquake in the Bay Area.

Both aircraft carriers are curtently in "donation status," making them eligible for "adoption" by worthy foundations for conversion into museums.

Curtently, the cities of Baltimore, MD and Tampa, FL have proposals before the Navy to adopt the carrier FORRESTAL. A group headed by native Rhode Islander and West Point grad, Frank Lennon, is curtentiy drafting a proposal to convert SARATOGA into a combined museum/vocational training center at the old carrier pier at Quonset Point. Unfortunately, Rob is not in a position to artange for tours of those three great ladies, but we certainly appreciated what he could share with us.

Following Rob's mini presentation. Admiral Tom Weschler easily held our attention widi his discussion of the Tall Ships visit to Newport, 29 June-2 July 2000. Tom addressed the three basic questions-What is a tall ship? Why are they coming to Newport? Why were those dates chosen?

Think of those romantic terms-CLOUD SCRAPERWIND JAMMER-CATHEDRAL-OF-THE-SEA, which de-

scribed those square rigged ships of yesteryearmostly cargo ships, which graced our harbors and shores until finally going out of fashion between 1925 and 1930-forced out of use by the more efficient and practical steam ships. However, a few of these graceful ships remained is service-primarily Shipmate, May 2000

because no other school could take their place in training sailors and to creating a love and respect for going to sea. Thus, the sail training ship was bom, not only teaching the basics of seamanship and discipline, but also respect for the sea and the elements, and to leam about the mysteries of how you handle yourself in long voyages away from home. Sail training ships of the large size are very expensive, and so gradually, schooners and sloops and cutters and converted minesweeps have become sail training ships. Today, we say that there are tall ships and there are small ships, but there are no small tall ships. Visiting Newport this summer will be 52 Tall Ships from 12 nations, ships ranging from 30 feet at the water line to the 376 foot, steel-hulled KRUZENSHTERN. Built in 1926, KRUZENSHTERN (originally PADUA) sailed out of

Germany and was eventually used as a barge during World War II. After the war, she was transferted to the Soviet Navy as a training vessel and now flies the Russian flag out of her homeport of St. Petersberg.

Competition for Tall Ships visits in this millennium year was fierce, and in 1994, agreement was made for three major events: a trans-Atiantic race for the bulk of the ships; a Scandinavian visit, which will occur in Norway, and a visit to AustraUa to help celebrate the 2000 Olympics. In midApril, the ships will depart from Genoa and Southampton en route a long weekend in Cadiz, Spain. Then, off to Bermuda for a 9 - 12 June visit, followed by a tliirty-day period when the ships are free to visit ports of their choice on the eastem seaboard and then to meet again in Boston for a 12 July - 6 July visit, and then off on a race to Halifax where they will spend a long weekend. Next comes a race from Halifax to Amsterdam, ending on 15 August. Twenty ports on the U.S. eastem seaboard were vying for ship visits during that 30 - day free period between Bermuda and Boston, including Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York. The only open weekend was 29 June - 2 July, and the local committee went to work. Planning for the event has been ongoing for the past three years.

Since many of the senior officers of the participating navies are graduates of the Naval Command Course, the War College was a major draw for the taU ships. Just coincidentaUy, there will be an NCC reunion that same weekend. Newport's geographical location helped considerably, since the ships are due in New York City on the 4th of July for a celebration, which the President is planning to attend, viewing the ships from an aircraft cartien The Schedule: 52 Tall Ships are expected, including ten squareriggers. Two of the square-riggers will be unable to make it into Newport Harbor, so they will anchor off Goat Island. The rest will be moored at various locations along the waterfront from State Pier to lYRS and Fort Adams. They will arrive at will on Thursday, 29 June. That evening, everyone will be U-eated to a Parade of Lighted Yards.

The parade will begin about 9:00 p.m. off Goat Island, through the harbor at five knots to Ida Lewis YC and then to Fort Adams, lasting 60-90 minutes. It will consist of all sorts of local craft, lighted with up-and-overs, spotiights, floods and any garish innovations the owners can manage. Costumes, music and imagination are encouraged! It should be a great show, so pray for good weather.

Friday night, Dewey Field will be open for major picnics - bring your own food or patronize the tent set up by the O'Club. The Navy Band will be playing a patriotic concert and hopefully the Sea Chanters will be present. Fireworks will cap the evening's festivities.

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General visiting will be from 10:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Other events include the International Tall Ships Ball, which will be cohosted by the Preservation Society at the Breakers. If you are interested in meeting the crews and cadets, there will be Saturday soccer tournaments at Ft. Adams, volley ball matches at Easton's Beach and other field games at both locations. Picnics for up to 1,000 will also be held at both sites, and food vendors will be available should you want to join in and meet our visitors. Saturday night there will be block parties at Ft. Adams and the Yachting Center for the crews and cadets - about 1,000 are expected at each venue. Young ladies 17 - 23 are needed as hostesses for that event. Loma Lewis and Mary Hayes are taking the names of volunteers.

Sunday will be the parade of sail, with the first ship passing under the bridge at noon, heading north and then reversing course in the vicinity of Gould Island. All ships should clear the harbor by 3:00 p.m.

There will be four Tall Ships visiting Newport off schedule: CUAUHTEMOC (Mexican)

19-22 May

NIAGRA (Erie, PA.)

15-17 June

AMERIGO VESPUCCI

9-12 July

USCGC EAGLE Weekend of 4 August Anyone desiring to volunteer for any events should contact the Tall Ships Organization: fax 847-8508 or taIshpsnpt@aoI.com Our next get together will be on Tuesday, 28 March 2000, at die O'Club. Cocktails and sea stories at 6:30 p.m., followed by dinner (beef tips over noodles)) at 7:15 p.m. Our guest speaker will be Commander Offer David, Israeli Navy. CDR David is curtently a student at the Naval War College in die NCC. Don't forget the Navy-BC game at Boston College on 23 September at BC. Bus ride and tickets are on the agendaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;price to be determined. Specific details will be promulgated when firmed up.

The bus will pick us up about 8:30 a.m. at a Park and Ride lot at exit 10,1-95. We plan to amive in time for an indoor tailgate conducted by the Boston NAAA Chapter. If you want to be added to the waiting hst, please let me know by email and please include Bob Figura '58 in your reply at: bobfigura@prodigy.com. If you don't have email, just get the word to me by phone or snailmail and I'll pass it on to Bob. Ben Katz '57 Corresponding Secretary becat@bbsnet. com.

South Carolina Midlands Chapter Rev. Aris P. Metrakos 9 Baying Hound Way Blythewood, SC 29016-8743 h: 803-786-8100 e: colagoc@mindspring.com Web site: www.members.aol.com/usnaaasc

Palmetto Chapter William B. Swent '88 (Acting President) Leatherwood, Walker, Todd & Mann, P C .

100 E.Coffee Street PO. Box 87 Greenville, SC 29602-0087 w: 864-242-6440 e: WSwent@LWTM.com

Low Country Chapter Robert M. Hoskins Jr. '87 14 Sandpiper Road Hilton Head, SC 29928-6419 h: 803-686-4351 e; bobhoskinsjr@hotmail.com

TENNESSEE1 Chattanooga Chapter VADM Ronald M. Eytchison '58, USN (Ret.) 11 Prentice Lane Signal Mountain, TN 37377 h: 423-886-2823 e: RMEytch@msn.com

Knoxvilleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Oak Ridge Chapter CAPT Jackson B. Richard '52, USN (Ret.) 13 River's Run Way Oak Ridge, TN 37830-9005 h: 423-483-8599 e: richardjb@mindspring.com

Memphis Chapter CAPT Edward A. Lyons '69, USNR 2557 Park Creek Cove Germantown.TN 38139 h: 901-755-1286

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SOUTH CAROLINA Charleston Chapter CAPT Joseph C. Gamboa '62, USNR (Ret) 1672 Seignious Drive Charieston, SC 29407-9661 h: 843-556-4544 http://members.tripod.com/~mitt2/navy/ e: ananda6662.aoI.com

CDR John F. Ohlinger '69, USN (Ret.) 880 Lakemont Drive Nashville, TN 37220-2124 h: 615-370-1441; w: 800-242-8613 e: johlinger@worldnet.att.net

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TEXAS North Texas Chapter LCDR James M. Bethmann '77, USNR 2203 Creekside Circle Soutii Irving, TX 75063 h: 972-402-9596 e: JlMUSNA@aol.com

South Texas Chapter CAPT Michael Stoffel '54, USN (Ret.) 520 North River Seguin,TX 78155 h: 830-379-2373 e: mstoffel@worldnet.att.net

Texas Gulf Coast Chapter Lynn A. Wegner '65 2202 Winrock Houston, TX 77057 h: 713-781-9932; w: 713-263-8001 ext 265 e: lwegner@rectorseal.com February's luncheon The following shipmates attended the 4 Febraary meeting: John Keller '44, Dan Mahoney '47, Zeb Alford '48, Charlie Chavarria '56, Fartald Belote '59, Ray Wellbom '59, Roy Hughes '60, Chris Nichols '61, Marty Green '6123, John Kendall '64, Jeff Hogan '64, Neil Duarte '65, Rob Brown '65, Paul Marshall '65, Fred Schlemmer '65, Lynn Wegner '65, Don Roesh '67, George Zahn '67, Rick Miller '68, Peter VanDeriofske '68, Jim Babb '69, Bruce Potter '69, Tom Wojciechowski '69, Doug Bateman '70, Steve Chapman '70, Bill Donges '71, Jeff Loustaunau '71, Mark Johnson '74, Andy Howard '75, Gerard Coleman '80, Kay Hire '81, Steve Plaisance '81, Jeremy Chio '89, and Will Randall '90.

February's meeting Lynn Wegner '65 welcomed the largest gathering ever for one of our Chapter Luncheons. This was the Chapter's "First Annual Valentine's Event" and red roses were given to all invited special guests. Bart Jealous '65 introduced the keynote speaker. Astronaut Kay Hire '81, CDR, USNR. Kay Hire earned her NFO wings in October 1982.

Later, she instracted student naval flight officers in the classroom, simulator and on board the T-34 aircraft. In January 1989, she joined the Naval Air Reserve. She became the first female in the U.S. assigned to a combat aircrew when she reported to VP-62 in May 1993. She began work at the Kennedy Space Center in May 1989 and progressed through several engineering assignments. Later, selected by NASA for astronaut training, Hire re-

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ported to Johnson Space Center in March 1995.

Most recently, she served as a Mission Specialist2 on STS-90 Neurolab (17 April- 3 May, 1998), orbiting the Earth 256 times and logging over 381 hours in space.

Astronaut Kay Hire '81 was invited to share her experiences (and female perspectives) in regards to her years at the Academy, in the Fleet, and in the space program. Her comments were very well received by a diverse audience of Alumni, spouses, and friends of USNA. Later, she answered a wide range of questions during the Q&A session. The luncheon was thoroughly enjoyed by all. And, as witnessed the large turnout, that kind of innovative programming, suggested by Lynn Wegner '65, coupled with an interesting speaker really works.

Chapter News Jeff Loustaunau '71 has accepted a position as Commandant of the Maine Maritime Academy, www.mainemaritime.edu, located in Castine, ME. Jeff and his wife, Susie, have been our area Blue & Gold Coordinators for the last five years. During that time, they have worked with 40 Blue & Gold Officers, and together they have helped send a remarkable 200 Midshipmen to the Academy. At the Febraary Chapter luncheon, all Blue & Gold Officers were asked to stand while we applauded their dedicated work. The Loustaunaus can be contacted via email at USNATX@hotmail.com. Later, on 25 Febraary, our Chapter hosted a "Goodbye to Jeff and Susie Party," attended by over 60 Alumni, Parents' Club members, and friends of the Academy. We were pleased to present them with a Certificate of Commendation from the USNA Alumni Association recognizing them for their "superb leadership as the Texas Gulf Coast Blue & Gold Coordinators." The certificate was signed by Leighton W. Smith '62, Chairman of the Board, and Ron Marryott '57, President and CEO. Our Chapter presented them with an Official USNA Desk Lamp. Plus, knowing that it gets cold in Maine, we gave Susie a Navy knit headband, and gave Jeff a Navy knit watch-cap (allowing him some needed extra protection from the cold winds).

Business Network Meetings Several of our USNA shipmates are members of The Academy Network (a Houston-based business network group consisting of graduates from USNA, USMA, and USAFA). Our twice-monthly breakfast meetings are held at 7:30 a.m. on the first Tuesday and third Friday of every month at the Metropolitan Racquet Club. Visitors are always

welcome. If you're interested, please call Bart Jealous '65 (281-362-8220), send me an email, or visit our Web site (newly re-named to http:// www.e-academies.net). Visitors are always welcome.

June Dinner As in prior years, our annual Chapter Diimer will be held on Friday night, 2 June at Brennan's Restaurant for Alumni, spouses, guests, and the USNA Parents' Club members. CAPT. Samuel J. Locklear HI '77, USNA's Commandant of Midshipmen will be our guest speaker CAPT Locklear took over as the Naval Academy's 78th Commandant of Midshipmen on 20 December 1999, replacing RADM Gary Roughead '73.

Chapter Meetings Chapter meetings are usually held on the first Friday of every month (7 April, 5 May, 8 September, 6 October, and 3 November) at Brennan's Restaurant (11:30 a.m. refreshments, and noon to 1:00 p.m. lunch). As in prior years, there will be no luncheon meetings in June, July, or August. Of course, "lost" shipmates, spouses and friends of the Naval Academy are always welcome at our monthly luncheons. Please join us! Call Lynn Wegner '65 (713-263-8001 ext. 265) or Peter VanDeriofske '68 (713-690-9898) for more information. For any additional information on any item in this column, please call me at (713-750-8868) or send an email to kleinl985@aol.com.

Ed Klein '72

UTAH/IDAHO/ ^9B MONTANAAVYOMIN Intermountain NA Alumni Chapter James R. Clark '66 5860 Soudi HoUaday Boulevard Salt Lake City, UT 84121 -1512 h: 801-272-7183 e: clarkfam@gateway.net There have been a few USNA Chapter events out here in the wild wild west. We are still sponsoring the Voice of Experience program, dragging in, sometimes-reluctant speakers to share their viewpoints and experiences. Last victim to get roped into speaking was Dick Luker '62.

We were so interested about his route to USNA,

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via Boys Town, and via a tour at the University of Illinois wrapped up with pre-med and the football Marching Illini band, that gave him a release from mandatory ROTC. And then finally relenting to the call of naval aviation, offered through our school. And, what follows was 227 missions over North Vietnam and a career in the naval Reserve culminating with command of a Reserve A-7 squadron at Alameda. Dick Lukerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; no regrets, and full gratitude towards his educational experience at Annapolis.

We then got to vicariously enjoy the Army-Navy football game at Iggy's Sports Grille in Salt Lake City, generously hosted by about 40 USMA sponsors and enjoyed by about 50 Boat School victors.

Game was preceded by the annual membership meeting, ending with the Navy Whisper Cheer as the Army folks filed to the TV sets to view the 100th anniversary of the footballs' finest rivalry.

VIRGINIA Blue Ridge Chapter CAPT Roger C. Adams '70,.USNfReL) USN (Ret) 6609 Fairway Vie^ Roanoke, VA '. h: 540-989-6198; w: 540-362-7389 e: radams3491@aol.com

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cutting ceremony at half-time celebrated the 100th game. The Alumni were later joined by several members of the Richmond Recraiting District, following CDR John Clay's assumption of command earlier in the day. Alumni and wives attending included Halma and Russ Wilson '49, Carlene and Walt Wagner '50, Dottie and Duke Edwards '56, Phyllis and Paul Galanti '62, Stuart Settle '63, Bruce Woodruff '64, Kimberly and Bill Ruch '68, Rick Williamson '72, Andy Schneck '73, Cheryl and Rob Casey '73, Mike Curreri '73, Pat Gottschalk '75, Jennifer and Rich Polek '78, Mark James '78, Jim Wilson '80, John Clay '81, Kyle Hancock '83, Diane and Rich Nelson '84, Angle and Wes Boyce '89, Eric Cheney '89, Sandy and Dave Sanders '90, Jeff Jackson '91, and Matt Morse '93.

February Cindy and Gregg Nivala '80 hosted a dinner at their home on 17 Febraary. Attending were Connie and Mark James '78, Bill Lewis '60, Cathy and Bill Carmichael '63, Connie and Bill Golden '43, Nita and Jack Parry '67, Kimberly and Bill Ruch '68, and Carlene and Walter Wagner '50. Paul Sherland '73, working in Richmond and a member of the Charlottesville Chapter, was also able to join us. Unfortunately, the speaker was unable to make the dinner, but the group enjoyed the company and old tales being retold. Many thanks to Gregg and Cindy!

Bill Ruch '68

Central Virginia Chapter

Shenandoah Valley Chapter

CAPT Anthony A. HastogUs '55, USN (Ret) 102 Shawnee Court Charlottesville, VA 22901-1034 h: 804-973-7846 e: Ahastogtis@compuserve.com

David V. Langfitt '74 125 Henrico Road Front Royal, VA 22630 w: 540-636-2138 e: davidlangfitt@netscape.net

Hampton Roads Chapter

Williamsburg Chapter

CAPT Peter K. Glasier '62, USN (Ret.) 1105 Glenside Drive Vfrginia Beach, VA 23464 h: 757-467-2064; w: 757-486-2410 e: pete62@erols.com

Col Bradley Sutter '53, USAF (Ret.) 117 Pierce's Court Williamsburg, VA 23185 h: 757-220-2929 e: sutwil@widomakencom

Richmond Chapter CDR William L. Ruch HI '68, USN (Ret) 5707 Maple Brook Drive Midlodiian, VA 23112-6320 h: 804-739-3664 e: wlr68@sprintmail.com November Ten Alumni and tiieir wives and guests met Friday, 12 November at the Bull and Bear Club for lunch. Several Alumni from West Point also attended to hear the speaker, Dn Walter Witschey, Director of die Science Museum of Virginia. Dn Witschey brought us up to date on the human genome project and the possible implications it has for all of us in the future of health care. Attending were Paul Galanti '62, Ada Smith and Doc Smith '52, Frank Rennie '76, Mark James '78, Brook Schurman '83, Nita and Jack Parry '67, Kimberiy and Bill Ruch '68, Stuart Settle '63, and Ed Paraiso '91.

December Twenty-two Alumni and their guests hosted the West Point Society of Richmond for the fourth annual joint Army-Navy Party in Richmond on 4 December More than 85 people watched the Big Blue Team defeat Army. Trampet accompaniment of fight songs by Russ Wilson '49 and Mel Drisko (Army '58) provided spirit for the party. A cake

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WASHINGTON Hanford/Tri-Cities Chapter CAPT Edward G. Schwier '69, USN (Ret) 1196 Brentwood Richland, WA 99352-9448 h: 509-627-7288; w: 509-372-0176 e: egschwier@aol.com

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Puget Sound Chapter CAPT Colin H. Saari '60, USN (Ret.) 12503 Ninth Avenue NW Seattle, WA 98177 h: 206-361-1192; w: 206-543-1363 e: saari@apl.washington.edu Web site: www.usnaaa-psc.org

WASHINGTON, DC AREA Greater Washington Chapter CAPT Dennis Spurgeon '65 USNR (Ret) 10725 River Road Potomac, MD 20854-4118 h: 301-983-3431 e: spurgeon@erols.com With the Character Development program at the Naval Academy receiving a lot of attention these days, our Chapter had the honor and pleasure of hearing directiy from the Director Character Development Division, CAPT Mike Kehoe, '71, on 19 January at our monthly luncheon. Captain Kehoe was accompanied by Midshipmen Hamon '00, McMahon '00 and Zurn '00 from the Brigade Honor Committee.

Superintendent Vice Admiral John Ryan '67, has made character development his number one goal, according to Captain Kehoe. He added that character development certainly isn't a new program at the Naval Academy. "What is new though, is the creation of a character development organization at the Academy that is specifically charged with the mission of focusing and integrating the moral and ethical development of Midshipmen within and across all Naval Academy mission elements.. .in other words, throughout every aspect of the Naval Academy experience," he said.

Captain Kehoe outlined new initiatives that are in place to address the character of Midshipmen.

It starts with the admissions process he says. A few years ago the Academy began mandating that candidates articulate their views and understandings of character and honor in their personal statement requesting admission. Further, any third-party letters of recommendation must include an assessment of the candidate's character as compared to their peer group.

The intent of the Character Development Program is to teach Midshipmen first to discern, through moral reasoning and individual values, what the right thing is, and secondly, to do the right thing. "Just following the rules or laws isn't enough," he said.

Captain Kehoe noted that one of the challenges the Character Development Program faces is one of educating Midshipmen to put loyalties in the proper order and perspective. They must continually educate the Midshipmen of the relationship between peer loyalty and loyalty to the trath. "As military officers, we must understand that our highest loyalty, our ultimate loyalty, has to be, must be, not to our shipmates, but to the trath."

Finally Captain Kehoe outlined the Character Development Seminarsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;monthly discussion seminars that are ethics-based, use a formal text, and led by well-trained facilitator teams consisting of staff, faculty, company officers, coaches, and senior Midshipmen. According to Captain Kehoe, many people across the Yard are volunteering for these seminars because "they want to have a share in this enterprise and become personally involved in promoting the moral and ethical development of our Midshipmen."

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"Character is not about never failing," he said.

"It's about never quitting in trying to determine what therightthing is and in mustering the strength of will to do it, so that everyday we can answer yes to the question, "Would I be proud to tell my family what I did today?"

During the question and answer period the three Midshipmen representatives from the Honor Committee gave specific examples (without names) of the type of honor situations they routinely deal with. Many of the honor issues revolve around a wrong choice when faced with conflicting loyalties. Midshipmen will sometimes cover for each other out of a sense of Classmate loyalty, without at the time realizing that they owe a higher loyalty to the trath. Getting Midshipmen to understand the cortect hierarchy of loyalties seems to be the core issue that presents the greatest challenge.

At our luncheon 16 Febraary, RADM Michael G. Mullen, '68, Director, Surface Warfare Division (N86), outlined the 21st century Surface Navy in his keynote address.

Early in his remarks, RADM Mullen urged those in attendance to write their congressmen to help educate them about the military and curtent fiscal constraints. The number of them who have served in the armed services is becoming fewer and fewer, according to RADM Mullen. "We need to be resourced better," he said.

RADM Mullen, who grew up near Hollywood, never thought of himself as a career officer. As a Plebe, though, he recalls a '66 shipmate giving him three weeks before running him out.

'That was all I needed," he said. Nearly four decades later, RADM Mullen continues to support the Navy through his active duty service and by promoting the Naval Academy when he has the opportunity. As such, he urged fellow Alumni to contribute to the Alumni Association and support their Academy.

Before moving into his discussion, RADM Mullen pre-empted two popular topics; "I don't do Street Fighter, and I don't do Battleshipsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;we're not bringing them back," he said. RADM Mullen highhghted the three areas of today's Surface Navy: Maritime Dominance, Land Attack, and Theater Air Dominance. Today's forces are smarter and more responsive. The paradigm has shifted from "platform-centric" warfare to "network-centric."

Today's joint forces maximize their synergy and take advantage of the power unleashed by the Information Age, according to him.

In the Land Attack arena, RADM Mullen made it clear that the future of Surface Warfare would be Surface Combatant 21 (DD21). According to RADM Mullen, DD21 will have twin 155mm guns capable of firing 11 rounds per minute up to 100 milesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;firepower that is well within the specifica-

tions demanded by the Marine Corps. Manning of DD21 would be reduced by almost a third. Current ships its size have a crew of about 300, whereas roughly 95 Sailors will man DD21.

"Over 60 percent of our budget is spent on people in one way or another," he said. In the subsequent question and answere period, RADM Mullen explained that DD21 is "starting from a clean sheet of paper." Never before has a ship been built like this. "We're forcing innovation and automation," he said. "We can't build ships the way we used to."

RADM Mullen discussed several developments in the Theater Air Dominance piece. DDG 85 will be the first Navy Area Platform in FY 03. In the Navy Theater Wide program, an SM-3 guided missile was successfully tested this year. More tests will follow, according to him.

One of the biggest challenges the Navy is facing, however, is with recruiting and retention. "We're in a man power war," he said. The Navy and the Marine Corps were the only services to make their recruiting goal recently. "Retention is improving, but it's not where we need it to be," he said, despite pay raises and the first-ever SWO bonus.

"We've got to take the workload off the Sailor's backs."

RADM Mullen and his wife, Deborah, continue to sponsor Midshipmen, and they have two sons, John and Michael, at the Naval Academy.

Our Chapter will continue to host monthly membership meetings the third Wednesday of each month. Local Alumni and visiting Alumni from around the world are welcome to join our Chapter for these informative and fun meetings at the Ft. Meyer Officer's Club. We start at 11:30 a.m. for a cocktail gathering followed by lunch and our keynote speakers. We look forward to seeing you there!

Dennis Spurgeon, '65 president@usnaaagwc.com

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CAPT Robert Wood '39, USN (Ret.) and CDR Stephen Wood, USNR (Ret.). Steve Wood (Bob Wood's son) is a USMA grad who selected Navy and is former shipmate of RADM Mullen.

RADM Mullen '71 and CMDR Ed Conant '64, chat before Admiral Mullen's presentation.

WEST VIRGINIA West Virginia Chapter Joe Dailey '51 1226 Mount Vemon Road Charleston, WV 25314-2528 304-346-6193 Jdailey@newwave.net

WISCONSIN Wisconsin Chapter

Rear Admiral Mullen '71

Winston C. Williams '46 13350 West Bluemound Road #?

Elm Grove, WI 53122-2538 h: 414-782-6645; w: 414-782-9410 e: winwill@execpc.com e: cook.phillip@nulwaukee.va.gov

UNITED KINGDO Great Britain Chapter Susanne Saalau-Bethall '85 50 Aubreys Letchworth-Herts SG6 3TU England w: 0-1438-76-3419 e: ssb25133@GlaxoWellcome.co rbethell @ netcomuk.co.uk

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LAST CALL Requiescat in Pace They shall grow n o t old, as we that are left grow old; age shall n o t weary them, nor t h e years c o n d e m n . A t t h e going d o w n of t h e s u n a n d in t h e morning, we will remember t h e m . " â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Laurence Binyon, 1914

Baraliowski, John Joseph '35 CAPT, USN (Ret.) 18 November 1999 Began, Robert John '57 MAJ, USAF (Ret.) 10 February 2000 Buckalew, Meriwether Walker '34 Lt Col, USAR 27 February 2000 Campbell, William Clark '44 CDR, USN (Ret.) 14 March 2000 Chandler, Barron Wallace '40 LCDR, USN (Ret.) 2 March 2000 Cane, Guy '54 CAPT, USN (Ret.) 1 March 2000 Chevalier, Edmond Andrew '49 CDR, USN (Ret.) 13 February 2000 Crockett, John William '52 28 February 2000 Dressin, Sam Aaron '44 Col, USMC (Ret.) 24 February 2000 Go wing, Richard Maxwell '53 CAPT, USN (Ret.) 22 March 2000 Haley, Thomas Bradley '30 CAPT, USN (Ret.) 15 Febmary 2000 MANLY LAMAR CURRY '29 Brigadier General Manly Lamar Curry, USMC (Ret.), of Lexington, VA, died on Sunday, 6 February 2000, at die age of 94.

He was bom on 18 May 1905 in New York, NY, and was married to Mary "Polly" Marston Curry.

He graduated from the Naval Academy and was commissioned a second Ueutenant in the Marine Corps in 1929. A combatant in the Nicaraguan Campaign of 193031, he became a battalion commander of an artillery uiut in the Guadalcanal and Tarawa operations during World War II. He was an artillery staff officer with the commanding general of the Fleet Marine Force of the Pacific at Iwo Jima.

He later was the operations officer of the Third Amphibious Corps during the occupation of North China. He commanded the artillery of the First Marine Division during the Korean War. He graduated from the National War College in 1947, and served on the staff of the Joint Chiefs of Staff until 1950. He was awarded the Legion of Merit twice during his military service, as well as the Bronze Star and the Navy Commendation Medal. He was also awarded the Chinese Cloud Banner medal and a letter of c o m m e n d a t i o n from the Korean govemment.

In 1971, he and his wife moved to Lexington, VA, and became communicants of the R.E. Lee Memorial Episcopal Church, where he was active in several projects and served on the church vestry. He was active for many years in Boy Scouts and was awarded the Silver Beaver medal for his work as a scoutmaster. He e s t a b l i s h e d the Rockbridge Amateur Radio Emergency Service,

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Hall, Norman '31 CDR, USNRR (Ret.) 24 March 2000 HoUis, Daniel Lester, Jr. '47 CDR, USNR (Ret.) 18 March 2000 Kaplan, Albert David '32 CAPT, USN (Ret.) 13 March 2000 Kunze, Martin Wilckens '52 CDR, USN (Ret.) 26 June 1999 Kyte, Edwin Louis '36 LCDR, USN (Ret.) 22 February 2000 Laizure, Dallas Morgan '36 CAPT, USN (Ret.) 17 December 1999 Lee, James Richard '28 RADM, USN (Ret.) 29 February 2000 Libbey, Miles Augustus, Jr. '40 CDR, USN (Ret.) 9 March 2000 MidhoUand, Frank James '51 8 November 1999 Nelson, Frederick Louis '48 CAPT, USN (Ret.) 29 February 2000 Pantle, Donald Clyde '49 7 January 2000

Prince, Howard Riche '32 CAPT, USN (Ret.) 23 March 2000 Reed, William Howard '52 CAPT, USN (Ret.) 28 February 2000 Reynolds, Hugh Decimus, Jr. '46 7 January 2000 Ringhausen, Robert Leo '50 CAPT, USN (Ret.) 1 March 2000 Schultz, Ford Joel Elmer '51 CAPT, USN (Ret.) 19 February 2000 St. Lawrence, William Patrick '51 CAPT, USN (Ret.) 18 March 2000 Sample, Leon Hughes '34 CDR, USNR (Ret.) 26 January 2000 Street, George Levick, HI '37 CAPT, USN (Ret.) 26 February 2000 Tyler, Paul Robert '36 MajGen, USMC (Ret.) 6 March 2000 Vescovi, Americo James '43 CDR, USN (Ret.) 15 March 2000

which later became the Rockbridge Amateur Radio Club. He also taught mathematics at the Rockbridge Jail, as part of a volunteer literacy group.

In addition to his wife, Mary, he is survived by three children, Dn John L. Curry of Fairfax, VA; Mary C. Neidigh of Indianapolis, IN; and the Rev. M. Bowie Curry of Fredericksburg, VA; five grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

A memorial service was held at R.E. Lee Episcopal Church, followed by a private burial. Memorial c o n t r i b u t i o n s may be made to the Rockbridge Area Hospice.

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dash back to the West Coast enabled Jake to join the "Market Street Commandos," that sterling defense group which put San Francisco at ease during the critical early days of the war. Next, came duty in BuPers for 18 months, followed by command of BURNS (DD-588). A little over a year later, the war ended and Jake's orders to command a new destroyer were changed to duty on the CinCPac staff.

When detached from CinCPac, Captain Bullen took command of JOHN A. BOLE (DD-755). After that, he served tours in BuPers, command of DesDiv 162, a year at the National War College, a tour in OpNav, command of SEMINOLE, staff of ComPhibLant, Joint Staff, commander PhibRon One, and a final tour as chief of staff StaffCom 6.

Soon after retirement in 1963, the Bullens built a house in Welaka, on Florida's St. John's River, where Captain Bullen took graduate courses at University of Florida, and later taught high school math for two years.

A visit to Rio and many trips covering the globe kept up their love of travel. Pamela died in 1987, and in 1988, Jake moved to Vicar's Landing in Ponte Vedra Beach. Following Pamela's death, Jake continued his love of traveling. He visited Europe, Mallorica, Africa, and finally, a retum trip to China.

Captain Bullen is survived by his son, Bradford Bullen, of Welaka, FL; daughter, Pamela Warden of Erie, PA, and three grandchildren, Audrey and Robert Warden; and Kenneth Bullen.

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JACOB T H O M P S O N BULLEN JR. '34 Captain Jacob T. "Jake" BuUenJn, USN (Ret.), died after a very brief illness at the Beaches Hospital in Jacksonville, FL, on 5 Febraary 2000. A memorial service was held for his family and friends at Vicar's Landing, and several area Classmates on 11 February, with interment to follow in Arlington on 23 May. Following graduation from the Naval Academy, Captain Bullen reported to the battleship, COLORADO. A year later, he transferted to BORIE for another year, then was ordered to AUGUSTA in the Atlantic fleet. Prior to leaving for China, he married Pamela Peoples to take her with him. Two-and-ahalf years later, they came home by way of Europe. Jake then served in VEGA for a year, followed

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H E R B E R T CLYDE CRESS ' 3 4 Mn Herbert C. Cress died on 15November 1999, of congestive heart failure. The Class has no further details at present.

Mr. Cress resigned on graduation and found employment with the Ford Instrament Co. as a test engineer He stayed there until 1962, except for a brief 1957-58 assignment as vice president and sales manager for Sperry Fartagut Co. in Bristol, TN. At Ford, Herb handled various responsibilities in engineering, industrial relations, manufacturing and general management. He saw the range keeping instraments developed by Hannibal C. Ford evolve into the sophisticated fire control equipment of World War II and later After leaving Ford, Mn Cress joined Hartman Systems Co., which later became a division of AT-0 Inc., as works manager His primary efforts were devoted to engineering and manufacturing activities related to the manufacture and development of display systems for shipboard and airbome use in both military and commercial operations.

He retired in 1972 to enjoy family life and golf in Sayville, NY. Our only data on family comes from the Golden Lucky Bag where Herb reported that he and his wife, Barbara, had three children: daughter, Sandra Sue; sons, Peter and Robert; and three grandchildren. All efforts to locate any of them by telephone have failed.

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Bronze Stars, and a Letter of Commendation, all with Combat V, plus decorations from Great Britain, Portugal and Italy.

After retirement, Captain and Mrs. Lewis settied in her hometown of New Orleans, LA, where he joined Equitable Shipbuilding Co. as project manager for submarines, destroyers and offshore oil craft. That involved a lot of travel to such places as Kuwait, Beirat, Paris, and El Salvador â&#x20AC;&#x201D;all great fun. He retired from there in 1971 and the Lewises moved to Cape Coral, FL, where Hugh occupied himself with golf, gardening, and helping Florence with household chores. Hugh also found time for 13 selected courses at nearby Edison Community College and two years later was awarded an AA degree. As he wrote, his 4.0 scholastic average "marked his final metamorphosis from a demerit-prone, often delinquent Midshipman into a staid and sedate senior citizen."

H U G H H O W A R D LEWIS ' 3 4 Captain Hugh H. Lewis, USN (Ret.), died on 15 February 2000, in a hospital at Jacksonville, FL. There was a memorial service at his retirement community residence in Fleet Landing in Atiantic Beach, followed by a graveside interment ceremony at the Naval Academy Cemetery on 22 February.

Captain Lewis was bom in Manila, the son of an Army officer He grew up on Army bases, but chose the Naval Academy. Physically disqualified for a commission at graduation, he accepted a Reserve commission and went to sea as a mate in Standard Oil tankers. Later he became a natural scientist at the Naval Hydrographic Office until recalled to active duty as a LTJG in 1939. He served 18 months in TUSCALOOSA before being ordered to the Submarine School. Upon completion, Hugh served eight continuous years in submarines, beginning with S-4. Then came command of S-50, two war

engineer in HAMILTON and gunnery in DUPONT. In

patrols as XO of SEAL and command of STERLET.

He was the only USNR officer to be assigned to command a submarine during World War II. In STERLET, he rescued two British aviators from under Japanese shore guns, for which he was commended by King George V. He also conducted the first allied shore bombardment of Japan's home islands, destroying an oil storage plant at Shingpu.

At war's end, Hugh transferted to USN. In April 1948, Captain Lewis left STERLET for duty in the Naval Gun Factory D . C , where he served three years before commanding NEWTON K .

PERRY for two more. Next, he was assigned as Naval Attache to Portugal, then to various shore and staff billets, before finishing as Naval Attache to Italy, from where he retired in 1962. For his war service, Hugh received two Silver Stars, two

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Florence died in 1988, and two years later. Captain Lewis married Elizabeth "Betsy" Zeiss of Cape Coral, FL. In 1991, they moved to their home in Fleet Landing. Hugh is survived by his wife, Betsy, and several nephews and nieces.

HENRY C A L V I N SPICER J R . ' 3 4 Captain Henry C. Spicer Jn, USN (Ret.), died on 29 January 2000, in New Orleans, LA, from lung and liver cancer There was a family service in New Orleans with interment in Arlington on 15 March.

After graduation. Captain Spicer spent a bit over a year in CHESTER and ARKANSAS, then went successively for something over two years as chief 1939, he was given an unusual command, YP-42 and'YP-50 doing hydrographic surveys of Venezuela, Newfoundland and Bermuda. He met and married his Danish wife, Alice, in Curagao during the Venezuelan survey. From there, Henry went to Washington on the staff of ComBatShipsLant, but quickly put in for airbome training and spent the next three years in airship ASW efforts in the Florida Strait, the Gulf of Mexico, and off Brazil.

At war's end. Captain Spicer was transferted to Air Operations on the staff of Comlnch's 10th Fleet. He went back to sea as CO of FORREST ROYAL before going to Pensacola to qualify as a heavierthan-air pilot and serving on ComAirLant's staff.

In late 1951, he went to OpNav (Aviation Plans) and the next year to OpDevFor for Airship ASW Evaluation. In 1954, he went to the Naval War College faculty. In 1960 he reported to New Orleans as Chief of Staff to the Commandant Eighth Naval District, from where he retired in 1964.

The day after retirement, Captain Spicer joined the locally based Intemational House, where he performed various duties including trade missions to Central and South America, Europe, the Far East, and Russiaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a refreshing change of scenery. Unfortunately, that career was cut short by a stroke in 1973, after which he concentrated on regular exercise and diet regimes. Through it all he kept his fine sense of humor and spent much time watching the substantial career developments of his six children, teasing them along the way. Henry's wife predeceased him and he never remartied.

Captain Spicer is survived by five daughters: Diane Schneider, Alice Spicer, Doris Agin, Bettina Owens, and Susan Spicer; sons, Thomas and Bradford; eight grandchildren; and one greatgrandchild.

C H A R L E S COATES A L E X A N D E R ' 3 5 Charles Coates "Alex" Alexander, a long-time participant in the Gulf Coast oil industry, died on 15 November 1999, in the East Jefferson General Hospital in New Orleans, LA, after an extended illness. He was interted in the Lake Lawn Cemetery Alex was born and raised in Oil City, LA, and after a year at the University of Arkansas, entered the Naval Academy with the Class of 1935. Upon graduation, he resigned and went to work in the Louisiana oil fields in various capacities. During the first years of his career he worked for three major oil companies, Texaco, Chevron and Sinclair.

In 1936 he martied Virginia Harsch and the Alexanders lived in various Louisiana towns while Alex worked in the oil business.

In the early '60s, Alex started his own business, Alexander Specialties, Inc., selling drilling materials to oil companies, and the Alexanders settled in New Orleans, where they remained until his death.

Survivors include his wife, Virginia Harsch Alexander; a daughter, Nancy Alexander Frisard; a brother, James Alexander; a sister, Laverne McBride; and two grandchildren.

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CHARLES VIRGIL MCQUARY '35 Charles Virgil "Virg" McQuary, chemist, sales representative and business manager, died on 26 December 1999, in a Pittsburgh, PA, hospital following surgery for circulatory complications. He was cremated and his ashes were scattered in April in the White River Valley in Arkansas, near his long-time home, to join those of his wife, Traba, who died in November 1996, after 60 years of marriage.

Virg was bom in raral Macon County, MO, in 1911 and his family moved to Bethany, MO, when he was 12, where he graduated from high school and won a competitive appointment to the Naval Academy. He graduated with the Class of 1935, but was separated because of poor eyesight. He spent the next 15 years in engineering and management in the chemical industry.

Virg first became an apprentice engineer with Allied Chemical and Dye Corp. in St. Louis, IL, where he leamed the ropes of the heavy chemical industry. In February 1937, he married a local girl, Traba Fawn Kerley. In 1938, he became plant engineer of the Calumet Works in Chicago, rising to general foreman, assistant superintendent and plant manager He was transferted to Buffalo, NY, in 1944 to manage the company plant there. He was exempted from military service because the chemical industry was vital to the war effort and his plant produced munitions components. In 1946, Virg became director of manufacturing for Comwell Chemical Corp's plant on the Delaware River and the McQuarys moved to Cheltenham, PA, where their three children grew up. In 1950, Virg left the chemical industry for health reasons, starting his own sales engineering business in the Philadelphia district where he handled sales engineering work for several prominent equipment manufacmrers on an exclusive basis. He excelled in his new vocation, in part because it enabled him to maintain contact with colleagues in the chemical industry, and, equally important, because it involved a great deal of travel, which he relished. He was a member of the Rotary Club, the Franklin Institute, and other engineering societies.

In 1973, Virgil retired and the McQuarys moved to Flippin, AR, where tiiey established residence and built a home on an Ozark mountain top, a base

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from which they traveled extensively and spent much of each year on the road, wearing out a couple of handsome travel trailers in the process. In 1994, the McQuarys moved to Springfield, MO, to be close to specialized medical care for Traba, and after her death in 1996, Virg moved to Pittsburgh, PA, to be close to his daughter He kept his lust for traveling until shortly before h i s death.

He was very proud of his Naval Academy days and maintained contact with his Class and Classmates, attended Navy football games and planned to attend his upcoming 65th Class Reunion.

Virgil is survived by his tliree children: Charles R. McQuary of Soutiiem Pines, NC; Willard L. McQuary of Black Forest, CO; and Judith Marie Jones of Sewickley, PA; eight grandchildren; and eleven great grandchildren.

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ALTON E D W I N P A D D O C K ' 3 5 Captain Alton Edwin "Paddy" Paddock, USN (Ret.), died on 7 January 2000, in the nursing faciUty of Falcon's Landing in Sterling, VA, after an extended illness. A memorial service was held at the Falcon' s Landing Chapel on 13 January and he was inumed in a family ceremony on 19 January at the Arlington National Cemetery with miUtary honors.

Paddy was bom in Brooklyn, NY, in 1913 and raised in Port Washington, NY, on Long Island Sound, where he developed his desire to follow the sea. He entered the Naval Academy with the Class of 1935, playing on the baseball team and in the orchestra on violin.

Upon graduation, he served in CALIFORNIA for three years before reporting to NAS Pensacola for flight training in July 1938. Upon receiving his wings, he served in the aviation units of QUINCY and TUSCALOOSA and then as a flight instractor at NAS Jacksonville. He joined VS-3 in SARATOGA in the Pacific in June 1941 and was on board at the outbreak of World War II. He then served with VS10 briefly before attending Naval Postgraduate School, Annapolis, for a year, commencing in August 1942, followed by a year at MIT, during which he attained a degree in aeronautical engineering and was designated AED. For the next six years, Paddy devoted his energies to the development of carrier catapult and arresting gear with his time split between the Naval Air Material Center, Philadelphia, and the Bureau of Aeronautics in Washington, D.C. In September 1946, he married Penelope "Penny" Ann Barton of Alexandria, VA. In 1950, he joined the Overhaul and Repair Department at NAS, San Diego, followed by duty as BuAir Representative with the Glenn L. Martin Company in Baltimore, MD. After a year under instraction at the Naval War College starting in August 1955, Paddy served on the staff of ComFAirELM in Naples as logistics officer, retuming to Washington, D . C , in August 1958 to become director of ship installations in BuAer/BuWeps. His final tour on active duty was as commanding officer. Naval Air Development Center, JohnsvilleAVarminster, PA, whose mission at the time included the training of America's astronauts. He retired on 1 August 1965.

Until 1969, Paddy was manager of the management systems branch of the Manned Orbiting Laboratory Program for the General Electric Space Division at Valley Forge, PA. He then was a research administrator at the University of Pennsylvania until 1 January 1981, when he fully retired. In 1996, the Paddocks moved to Falcon's Landing, a retirement community in Sterling, VA, and became very active in the activities of the USNA Class of 1935.

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In full retirement, Penny and Paddy have enjoyed frequent travel to visit their children and to escape the winter cold with snorkeling excursions in the Caribbean. Paddy enjoyed woodworking in his shop and Penny and he were active in bowling, gardening, home maintenance, a little golf and plenty of bridge.

Paddy is survived by his wife, Penelope, of Sterling, VA; a son, Richard Paddock, and his wife, Dana, of Arlington, VA; son-in-law Greg Schwartz, of Hemdon, VA; and five grandchildren. He was predeceased by his daughter, Jane Paddock Schwartz.

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JOHN PATTERSON CURRIE ' 3 7 Captain J.P. Ciurie, USN (Ret.), passed away on 18 January 2000, a victim of emphysema. His memorial service was at Galilee Episcopal Church in Virginia Beach, VA. His ashes will be scattered at sea.

The son of the Rev. Rolla P. Currie and Katherine Carey of Washington, D . C , he entered the Naval Academy in 1933, with the Class of 1937.

His early commissioned service was in MISSISSIPPI ( B B - 4 1 ) , BENHAM (DD-397), and CHEW

(DD-105).

Submarine School in 1941 switched his career to submarines, in which he would serve for eight years in R-19, GROWLER, SEA HORSE, S - 1 3 , CHARR

and ARGONAUT (SS-475).

At the end of World War II, he served in Japan with a detail examining and accounting for Japanese submarines. He would bring the ex-I-201, a new submarine, to Pearl Harbor In 1948, he reported to Commander Westem Sea Frontier as assistant and inspector general, his first trae shore duty in eleven years service. After three years there, he joined ESTES (AGC-12) as executive officer, a shift that separated him from submarines for the rest of his naval career ESTES would serve out the rest of the Korean War based at Inchon.

In late 1952, he reported to HAYNSWORTH ( D D 700) as commanding officer, operating in the Norfolk, VA, area. He then joined the staff of Commander Service Force, Atlantic Fleet as assistant personnel officer In 1955, he was a student in naval warfare at the Naval War College in Newport, RI. He then attended the NATO Defense College in Paris, France. Thoroughly internationalized, he then joined the Commander in Chief Allied Forces Meditertanean in Malta, serving as assistant chief of staff for intelligence. He would progress to be head of the plans and operations division on the staff of Commander in Chief Southem Area.

In 1959, he took command of CHILTON ( A P A 38). In 1960, he took over the Curtent Operations billet on the Commander in Chief Atiantic Fleet Staff.

He retired from naval service in 1962. His decorations include the Silver Star, the Bronze Star, and the Presidential Unit Citation.

As a civilian, he worked a bit in real estate until he joined ITT, the Naval Tactical Data Program contractor at Dam Neck, VA. This led him to a position in the Civil Service at Dam Neck, dealing with display standards.

He is survived by his wife, Gloria McComb Currie, of Virginia Beach, VA; a daughter, Carol Curtie, of Washington, D . C ; sons Michael P.

Currie '57, of Key West, FL; and Duncan M. Currie of Melboume, FL; a sister, Dora C Lewis, and nephew, D r J. Reilly Lewis, both of Arhngton, VA.

RALPH PETER KISSINGER JR. ' 3 7 CAPT Ralph Peter Kissinger Jr., U S N (Ret.), died on Tuesday, 4 January 2000, at Mary Lanning Memorial Hospital in Hastings. He was 85.

Services were held at the Fairfield Community Presbyterian Church in Fairfield, NE, with burial in the Fairfield Cemetery.

Captain Kissinger was born on 9 November 1914, to Ralph Peter Sn and June Rose (Troxel) Kissinger in Hastings. Following graduation from the Naval Academy in 1937, he served in Curasao, Netherlands Antilles. In 1939, he married Bettsie Foote of Hastings, NE, and then attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology, graduating in 1943 from the Naval Constraction Program. During assignments in submarines and submarine construction and repair at Mare Island Naval Shipyard during World War II, he qualified for his dolphins as a submarine engineering duty officer He then served at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in New Hampshire and as the submarine type desk officer at the Bureau of Ships. Following a tour in New London as the submarine force maintenance officer, he retired from the Navy in June 1957, and retumed to Nebraska to take over the family farm.

His wife, Bettsie, died in 1977, and he married Bemita Bridenhagen in 1979.

He is survived by his wife, one daughter, two sons, one stepson, eight grandchildren, two stepgrandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.

Memorial gifts may be made to the Hastings College Foundation, 3555 Famam Street, Suite 222, Omaha, NE 68131-3302.

PAUL EBERHART T A F T ' 3 8 Mn Paul E. Taft died on 26 January 2000, in Houston, TX. He was born in Wallingford, VT, on 2 September 1915, and graduated from the Naval Academy with the Class of 1938 on 2 June. He was in the 12th Company, a member of the lightweight crew, and active in the NA Ten and other musical organizations. He resigned after graduation and entered the business world in Houston until he volunteered for service in World War II. He served in STEVENSON ( D D - 6 4 5 ) for three

years, eventually becoming her executive officer For a portion of that tour, his commanding officer was LCDR John Wickes '38, a Naval Academy Classmate, termed by Paul the best skipper ever to serve in that ship. After his service, he retumed to the Duncan Coffee Company in Houston until 1952, when he built his own television station, Channel 11, under the Taft Broadcasting Company.

He was also involved in radio in the area.

He was a life member of St. Luke's United Methodist Church, and active in other community organizations. His first wife, Hartiet Duncan Taft, predeceased him in 1962. He is survived by his wife of 36 years, Bette Lynn Taft; six children; twelve grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Services were held at St. Luke's on 28 January 2000. Memorial contributions may be made to the Church, Goodwill Industries or the charity of your choice.

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CHARLES DERICK N A C E ' 3 9 RADM Charies D. "Chuck" Nace, USN (Ret.), died on 4 Febraary 2000, of a stroke at his home in Virginia Beach, VA. His memorial service was held in the Naval Academy Chapel on Thursday, 10 February, after which he was buried in the Naval Academy Cemetery with full honors.

Born 27 January 1917, in Pennsylvania, he was appointed to the Naval Academy from the state of New York and graduated with the Class of 1939. Upon graduation, he reported to CALIFORNIA in Long Beach, CA. In March 1940, he went to MUGFORD, skippered by Arleigh Burke, of "31-knot" fame. In January 1941, he went to Sub School in New London, CT, and upon graduation, was assigned to R2 at New London. In June, the R-2 went to Key West, where he met his wife-to-be, Pat Mansken With the advent of war at Pearl Harbor, he hurtied the date of his marriage to 9 December 1941. From March-July 1943, he put CERO into commission and then made six war patrols on her, the first three as her engineering officer, and the next three as her executive officer He was detached from CERO in December 1944, and on 1 April 1945, he took command of RASHER and decommissioned her back in the States. For his wartime actions, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal, a Legion of Merit and two Bronze Stars. In July 1946, he went to Sub School in New London, CT, and became the head of the electrical department. From 1948-1950, he had command of RONQUIL. From 1950 to 1953, he was head of Enlisted School Section at the Bureau of Naval Personnel. He then attended a fivemonth course at the Armed Forces Staff College and in 1953, he became operations, intelligence and projects officer on the staff of ComSubRon One. Following this job, he became ComSubDiv 72 for a year and then was Operations Officer on the staff of ComSubPac. He left Hawaii for Washington, D . C , in 1957, where he took a one-year course at the National War College. In 1960, he was the administrative aide and assistant for JCS matters for Op-06 and then took command of PICKAWAY. In 1961, he attended Harvard University for a year and then became ComSubFlotilla Seven. In 1964, he retumed to the Pentagon's Op06, and then was on SecNav's Retention Task Force. He was promoted to flag rank in 1965, and then served as assistant chief of Naval Personnel for Plans and Programs. He then served as ComSubFlot 2 in New London and finally as ComNavForces Southem Command/Com 15, in Panama, until his retirement on 1 July 1971.

In retirement. Chuck Nace was a fishing and golf enthusiast. He went after the big fish, mostly in the surf at Cape Hatteras (as shown in his picture).

He and his wife, Pat, walked the golf courses of many professional golf toumaments as avid spectators. In his last report for '39's 60th Reunion Book, Chuck mentioned that both he and Pat had had major surgery at Christmas '96, but were shortly mobile and optimistic about "craising into the 21st century." (Which he did.)

He is survived by his widow, Francis Ailene "Pat" Nace, of 2217 Kendall Street, Virginia Beach, VA 27451; plus two daughters, Stephanie L. Komich and Christine D. Murtay; and five grand-

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children. He was predeceased by a son, Douglas D. Nace, who died in 1957, at the age often.

D A N I E L OSCAR BLEVINS JR. '40 Daniel Oscar Blevins Jn died Thursday, 17 Febraary 2000.

He was bom on 29 November 1916, in Mitchell County to the late Daniel O. Blevins Sn and Lillian Garvin Blevins. Mn Blevins was a 1940 graduate of the Naval Academy and taught Naval Science and Tactics at Northwestern and Duke Universities during World War II. Mn Blevins worked as a petroleum distributor with his father and brother in Spruce Pine, NC, for 20 years. He was a member of the Kiwanis Club, president of the American Business Club, and Chairman of the Board of Trastees of Sprace Pine Community Hospital. He took a position with Equitable Life Assurance Company in 1969 and moved to Hickory, NC, where he was a member of First Presbyterian Church.

Mn Blevins was preceded in death by his beloved wife, Ashley Dulin Blevins; and his dear sisterly cousin, Barbara Garvin Berry.

He is survived by his sons, Daniel Blevins of San Antonio, TX; Peter Blevins and his wife, Janet, of Gamer, NC; and Thomas Blevins of Raleigh, NC; two daughters, Ashley Blevins of Charlotte, NC; and Mrs. Paris Skowron and her husband, John, of Raleigh; a brother, David Blevins and his wife, Jackie, of Sprace Pine, NC; one cousin, Mrs. Winifred Leuking of Connecticut; four grandchildren; and many dear in-laws, nieces, nephews and friends.

The funeral services were held at First Presbyterian Church, 930 Greenwood Road, Sprace Pine, NC. The Rev. Don Cooper officiated. Burial was at the Sprace Pine Memorial Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, his family wishes that expressions of love and friendship be directed to Sprace Pine Community Hospital Foundation, P.O. Box 9, Sprace Pine, NC 28777 or First Presbyterian Church, 930 Greenwood Road, Sprace Pine, NC 28777.

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NEIL H A R T M A N FISHER '40 Captain Neil H. Fisher, USN (Ret.), died in Newbury Park, CA, on 2 December 1999. He was buried in Pierce Brothers Valley Oaks in Westiake Village, CA, on 11 December 1999. He was bom on 28 January 1917inBismark, ND. After graduating with the Naval Academy Class of 1940, Neil's first duty was in the old four-stack craiser, CINCINNATI. She was based at Pearl Harbor, HI, but was seldom there, with craises to Manila, the Caribbean and Brazil. By December 1942, Neil was detached from CINCINNATI to report aboard the cruiser, BALTIMORE. This new ship soon went to the Pacific, and Neil spent the rest of the war on board, operating mostly with the carrier strike forces. They did not sustain any battle damage, but BALTIMORE claimed a few Japanese planes.

At war's end, Neil spent one year at the Postgraduate School in Annapolis, MD, then two years at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, MD, earning a master's degree in engineering. Next came sea duty

as XO of the destt-oyer BRUSH. She destroyed a mine off the coast of Korea, but suffered severe damage and limped back to Hunters Point. Neil left BRUSH to be gunnery training officer at ComTraPac, then to NORTON SOUND, where his PG course paid off.

There were early Terrier shots at sea, and engineering liaison with General Dynamics. Buord came next, to continue missile work as program manager for Tertier and Tartar.

Back to sea, it was as CO of LOFBERG, Neil's best and most exciting tour of his careen This fasttempo duty ended with his being relieved on the bridge at 27 knots as plane guard, then a "horse collar" transfer to the carrier and a catapult shot for a ride to Sangley Point. The next day, he became ComDesDiv 72, and a year later, went to the Pentagon for R&D in ASW. Sea duty came next as CO of DIXIE. Neil's last tour was on the staff of ComFirstFlt, ending with his retirement in 1965.

Neil's fifteen years in guided missile technical areas at the Naval Warfare Systems Engineering Station at Port Hueneme was his second careen On 27 July 1971, Freda Hendrickson and Neil were married in the chapel at Point Mugu, CA. They then dropped anchor in Thousand Oaks, CA. From that point, until Neil's passing, small-time ranching, horses and foreign travel were the order of the day.

Neil is survived by his wife, Freda; daughter, Susan, and her husband, Steve Bear; stepson, Curtis Hendrickson, and his wife. Amy; and grandchildren, John and Jason Bear, and Hunter Hendrickson.

OMAR C H R I S T I A N KELLER '41 Omar Christian Keller, age 82, passed away on 14 January 2000, of cancer, at his home in Cypress, TX. He was born on 9 October 1917, in Arlington, NE. He was preceded in death by his wife, Darlene Marjorie Martin. Omar and Darlene were married in Nevada on 5 April 1942, and shared 47 years of martiage, raising three sons and one daughter: David Keller of Omaha, NE; Dennis Keller and his wife, Julie, of San Antonio, TX; Terence Keller '74 and his wife, Beverly, of Spring, TX; and Marjorie Brinegar and her husband, Richard, of Cypress, TX. Mn Keller is also survived by his three sisters, Mrs. Anna Els of Minnesota, Mrs. Mina (Ben) Leppink of Utah, and Mrs. Donna Swanson of Califomia. He has ten grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

A twenty-year veteran of the U.S. Navy, Mr Keller retired as a disbursing clerk chief petty officer in 1956, after serving during the Spanish Revolution, World War II and the Korean War. His naval career included service on such notable ships as OKLAHOMA, TARAWA and ESSEX, and he was

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plankowner on WHARTON. Following his retirement from the Navy, he returned to his home in Nebraska, where he served for sixteen years as the Staff Administtative Assistant for the U.S. Army Reserve in a three-state area.

During his career with the Army Reserve, he received several "Meritorious Civilian Service Awards." He was responsible for writing several regulations regarding the administration of armories, which were included in the Standard Operating Procedures for the XVI Corps. He was instramental in establishing the Armory as the location for blood donations to the Bloodmobile under the sponsorship of the Fremont Armory Board.

An almost twenty-year resident of Corpus Christi, TX, Mn Keller was a member of Al Amin Shrine Temple, where he was active in the Arab Dram Band. He was a Sunday School "Grandpa" at the Protestant Chapel at NASCC and a volunteer tour guide on LEXINGTON. A descendant of

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Robert Treat Paine, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, Mr. Keller was also a member of the "Spirit of Seventy-Six" drill team.

Mn Keller was active in the Boy Scouts of America. He served as Scout Master and assistant Scout Master for troops in Fremont, NE; Dahlgren, VA; East Greenwich, RI, and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He served as a member of the District Committee for the South Florida and the Mid-America Councils, and as a member of the Eagle Scout Board of Review in Fremont, NE. Throughout his careen Mn Keller was instramental in assisting young high school students gain entry to the service academies and prep-schools.

Later in life, he became involved with the Naval Academy, where he was a former member of the Class of 1941, as a Blue & Gold Officer, receiving several citations for his dedicated work. In 1992, he was given '"The Commandant's Award" and was named "Outstanding Blue & Gold Officer for the State of Texas."

As a long-time member of the Masons, he was the Charter Master of the Scribner Lodge AF&AM in Scribnen NE. He was active in York Rite and Shrine and a member of the National Sojourners.

He was an active member of the Association of Shrine Oriental Bands.

Mn Keller believed in young children and the hope they brought for the future, he was often heard to say, "Anything for the children." Instead of flowers, it is requested that donations be made in his memory to the Shrine Children's Hospital Fund. A memorial service was held on 26 January 2000, at the Metropolitan Baptist Church Family Life Center, Regency Green, Houston, TX. Inumment will be at the National Cemetery, United States Naval Academy, Aimapolis, MD, at a later date. Condolences may be sent to his family at the home of his daughter, Marjorie Brinegar, 12615 Rolling Valley Drive, Cypress, TX 77429.

JARED ELLISON CLARKE III ' 4 2 Captain Jared E. Clarke HI, USN (Ret.), of Middletown, VA, passed away on 2 Febraary 2000.

The son of Dn J.E. Clarke Jn and Lucy Clarke, he was bora in Houston, TX, on 20 August 1920. Jerry attended the BuUis School in Silver Spring, MD, prior to entering the Naval Academy with the Class of 1942.

He married Beverly Briggs of Blackwell, OK, in Febraary 1947. During World War 11, he served in MINNEAPOLIS, MISSISSIPPI, PORPOISE, PLUNGER, and

GUARDFISH. His postwar duties included tours in PoMODON and TIGRONE and as commanding officer of ARGONAUT.

He also served as Commander, Submarine Division 71, and as Commander Submarine Squadron 6, and on the staffs of the Commander Submarine Force Pacific and Commander Submarine Force Atiantic. His final sea duty was as commanding officer of the fleet oiler, TOLOVANA. His final tour of duty was with the National Security Agency.

After retiring in 1969, Jerry served for three years as Commandant of Cadets at the St. Johns Military Academy in Delafield, WI, followed by a three-year tour as head of the naval science department at Harbor Creek High School in Harbor Creek, PA. His decorations included the Legion of Merit and the Meritorious Service Medal.

He is survived by his wife, Beverly; daughter, Susan Ziobro of Gaithersburg, MD; son, Jared, of Middletown, MD; and two grandsons.

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CLIFFORD MYERS ESLER JR. ' 4 2 Captain Clifford M. Esler Jn, USN (Ret.), died on 18 February 2000, at the Charleston nursing home where he had been a resident for almost two years. Cliff (a.k.a. Trigger) was born in Denison, TX, son of Clifford Esler and Marion Ratliff Esler.

He entered the Naval Academy in 1938, as a member of the Class of 1942, and graduated on 19 December 1941. He received an M.A. from The Citadel in 1974. He served in submarines for most of his Navy career He was a veteran of World War II, Korea and Vietnam, and a member of the Submarine Veterans of World War II. He also was a member of Christ Our King Church in Mt. Pleasant, where he served as a eucharistic minister for many years, the Hobcaw Yacht Club, and the Charleston Yacht Club. He enjoyed sailing, golf, birding, and all things to do with the sea. Cliff is remembered for his friendliness, generosity and boisterous laugh.

Surviving are his wife, Helen Winn Jones Esler; two sons, Clifford M. Esler III of Nova Scotia, and Harold W. Esler of Central, SC; three daughters, Susan Tulip of Hendersonville, NC; Ellen Valley of Chapel Hill, NC; and Marion Rudasill of Dunkirk, MD; a brother W.R. Esler of Amarillo, TX; and eleven grandchildren.

His ashes were scattered in the Wanda River, following a memorial mass on 21 Febraary 2000.

R O B E R T W A R R E N S T R I C K L E R 47 Lieutenant Commander Robei\ W. Strickler, USN (Ret.), died after long illness at La Mesa, CA, on 21 Febraary 2000.

Bob Strickler was bom in 1923 in York, PA, and after schooling there, graduated from high school at the Milton Hershey School in Hershey, PA. He enlisted in the Navy, won an appointment to the Academy, and after attending NAPS at Bainbridge, MD, entered the Academy with the Class of 1946. He was tumed back for academic reasons, and reentered with '47, graduating in 1946 with the 15th Company. As a Midshipman, Bob was a brilliant performer at track, and was a 100 yard dash winner in many USNA and Eastern meets.

He married frene Silvia of Newport, RI, in 1948.

Upon graduation, Bob served in DYESS ( D D R 880) and TERCEL ( A M - 3 8 6 ) before returning to

NAPS at Bainbridge, MD, to teach English in 1951 52. He was first lieutenant in MAGOFFIN ( A P A - 199) and in 1954 became XO of DIACHENKO ( A P D - 1 2 3 ) .

ROBERT CARPENTER GOODING '42 Vice Admiral Robert C Gooding, USN (Ret.), age 81, died on 30 November 1999 at Goodwin House West Hospice in Falls Church, VA, after battling cancer for several months. Bob was bom in New Orleans, LA, on 27 June 1918, the son of a professional engineer Raised in Pittsburgh and then Alexandria, where he was to become a longtime resident, he graduated from Alexandria High School and entered the Naval Academy in 1938 as a member of the Class of 1942.

He graduated in December 1941 and served in the radar, main battery and engineering departments of WASHINGTON in the Atiantic and Pacific until July 1944. Ordered to MIT for graduate studies. Bob was designated an engineering duty officer and served in various engineering-related assignments, including commander of the Boston Naval Shipyard and technical director of the POLARIS and POSEIDON Weapons Systems. He retired on 3 August 1976. He served as chairman of Columbia Research Corp., a govemment computer software contractor in Crystal City, and worked as a consulting engineer He was past president of the American Society of Naval Engineers and a member of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, a member of Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, and the National Academy of Engineering. His honors included the Legion of Merit and the Distinguished Service Medal.

He was martied to the former Joyce Waller of Alexandria, VA, for 57 years. Their son, Rob, and daughter-in-law, Pat, live in Atianta, GA, with their three children, Paige, Carter and Grant.

He was interted at Arlington National Cemetery.

In 1956, he went to Great Lakes Naval Training Station's Examination Center, and thence to command of LOYALTY ( M S O - 4 5 7 ) . He retumed to the

Academy in 1960 for a two-year tour in the physical education department, then attended the Postgraduate School at Monterey, CA, in physics and math until 1963, when he became XO of CATAMOUNT ( L S D - 1 7 ) . Beginning in 1965, he served until his retirement in 1966 as a chief observer with the Atomic Observation and Test Unit in the Pacific.

Upon retirement, he attended San Diego State University to obtain his teaching credentials, then a master's in history. He spent a short while teaching high school, then from 1967 until poor health forced him to retire in 1986, he taught at Bonita Vista Junior High School in La Mesa.

Bob was a Life Member of the USNA Alumni Association and of the Milton Hershey School Alumni Association. He is survived by his wife, Irene, his marriage to whom ended in divorce; two sons, Robert W. Strickler Jn, and Gary Strickler; a daughter, Ms. Karen Barney; a brother, James Strickler; and four grandchildren.

Funeral services were held in Lemon Grove, CA, prior to committal services at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery in San Diego on 1 March 2000.

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DEMING WAITE SMITH '48 Captain Deming W. Smith, USN (Ret.), passed away on Tuesday, 1 February 2000, in Virginia Beach, VA, at the age of 76. Captain Smith was bom in Worcester, MA, and was the son of the late Clarendon W. and Margaret D. Smith.

Upon graduation from the Naval Academy, he reported to Tsingtao, China, for duty in ROGERS (DDR-876). He shifted to the East Coast in January 1950 for duty onboard HUNTINGTON (DD-781) and to court his bride. He married Carol Elizabeth Peeling of Waltham, MA, in July 1950. After a short tour to commission TIDEWATER (AD-31), he went ing in MEDUSA ( A R - 1 ) when that ship was at- to Monterey, CA, for a post graduate tour in ordtacked during the nance engineering. He graduated from Lehigh Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor in 1941. He University in June 1955 with a master's of science stayed with her through the attack on the Solomons in chemistry and reported as "Gun Boss" to until appointed by the secretary of the Navy to the MCCAIN ( D L - 3 ) . Shifting to the West Coast Naval Academy, and after attending the Naval onboard MCCAIN in 1956, he made the first WestPac tour for any DL class ship. Captain Smith Academy Prep School, entered with the Class of then retumed to the East Coast in 1957 for a tour 1947 in 1943.

Upon graduation in 1946 with the 13th Com- as quality control officer of the old Naval Propelpany, he servedfirstin ST. PAUL (CA-73) and LEYTE lant Plant at Indian Head. He served as XO of (CV-32) before attending Submarine School in COMPTON ( D D - 7 0 5 ) , then as CO of MILL ( D E R 383)—generating mostly picket duty off Ireland New London, CT. out of Greenack, Scotland. Ashore in 1962, he Frank married Frances Wade of Annapolis, transferted to the Naval Ordinance Lab, White Oak, shortly after graduation.

He served in or commanded SEA LION (SSP-3 15), MD. He retumed to sea again in 1965 as the com-

FRANK ALLEN THURTELL '47 Captain Frank A. mkiUpm^Thurtell, USN (Ret.), died on 5 Febraary at his home in Annapohs, MD, of cardiac artest.

Frank was bom in Bellevue, NE, and enlisted in the Navy immediately after graduating from high school. He was serv-

CONGER (SS-477), COBBLER (SS-344), DARTER (SS576), THOMAS JEFFERSON (SSBN-618), JOHN C CALHOUN ( S S B N - 6 3 0 ) and VON STEUBEN ( S S B N -

632). He served on the Staff of the Commander, Submarine Flotilla Six, in Charleston, and as CO of PROTEUS (AS-19) at Guam, before hisfinalassignment as CinCLant Representative for Joint Strategic Planning at SAC Headquarters in Omaha.

He retired from active duty on 1 August 1974.

His civiUan career, from 1975 to 1986, was as nuclear power quality control manager for the Omaha Public Power District. Upon retirement from that work, he and Frances moved back to Aimapolis, carefully selecting their home so as to place him close—within walking distance, if necessary—to the Naval Academy golf course. He was a very active member both of the Naval Academy Golf Association and of Rotary, and a dedicated fan of Navy football.

He is survived by his wife of 53 years, Frances; a son James, of Dallas, TX; two brothers, Bernard and Dale; two sisters, Florence and Thelma; and two grandchildren.

Memorial services in St. Andrew's Chapel at the Naval Academy preceded the inumment of his ashes atflieUSNA Columbarium on 11 Febraary 2000.

Chet Shaddeau '47

manding officer of JOHN KING (DDG-3). In 1967, he was the XO of SPRINGFIELD ( C L G - 7 ) and then

was assigned ashore to ASWForLant Staff, Washington in 1971. In 1973, he was assigned to ASW Systems Project Office and retumed to Norfolk as Deputy Inspector General of CincLant Fleet. Captain Smith retired on 1 Febraary 1975, and settled in Virginia Beach.

Captain Smith was a long-time member of the Lions Club; Woodworkers Guild of America and the Naval Academy Alumni Association.

Captain Smith spent the last 25 years indulging in his love of woodworking and sailing, creating lots of sawdust and waves. The rest of his time was spent traveling the world with his beloved wife, Carol.

Survivors include his wife, Carol P. Smith; two daughters, Brooke S. Bridges of Raleigh, NC, and Paige S. Takach of Virginia Beach, VA; two sons, Bradford D. Smith of Manassas, VA, and Blair B. Smith of Virginia Beach, VA; and six grandchildren, Alison, Heather, Dana, Nicole, Michael and Kerry.

A memorial service was held on 4 Febraary 2000, in Holloman Brown Funeral Home, Bayside Chapel with Captain Fenton Wicker Jn, USN, Chaplain, officiating.

THOMAS ROBISON EAGYE II '50 Commander Thomas Robison Eagye II, USN (Ret.), of Colorado Springs, CO, died on 4 October 1999, at the Colorado State Veteran's Nursing Home in Walsenburg, CO. Commander Eagye was bom on 7 July 1927, in Charleroi, PA, to Vemon Spahr and Mary Provins Eagye. He enlisted in the Navy, serving in the Pacific during World War II, ultimately graduating from the Naval Academy in 1950 to begin a 20year career in submarines, which took him to Korea and Vietnam. In 1973, he retired to Colorado Springs, CO. He is survived by his wife, Priscilla; son, Jan; and daughters, Kathryn, Priscilla and Abigail.

In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to The Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society, 801 N. Randolph Stt-eet, Suite 1228, Arhngton, VA 222031978; 703-696-4904.

WILLIAM EVERETT QUIMBY '52 "Sandy" Quimby died on 9 August 1999, at home in Oakville, Ontario, Canada, after a long bout with cancer His ashes were spread over the Atlantic Ocean.

Bom in Syracuse, NY, on 10 August 1929, Sandy grew up in New York City and attended St. Paul's School in Concord, NH, prior to entering the Naval Academy. While at the Naval Academy, Sandy rowed in the eights. After graduation, Sandy married the former Catharine Chadwick of Montreal, Canada. Sandy served in destroyers in Pearl Harbor and then in submarines in the New London area.

In 1957, Sandy resigned his commission, moved to Quebec, Canada, and began a long career in constraction equipment. In 1962, Sandy and his family moved to Oakville, Ontario, where he started his own company, Direct Equipment, LTD. Survivors include his wife, Catharine; sons, Christopher and Eric; daughter, Alexandra; and two grandchildren.

CHARLES RAYMOND MERRITT '54 Charles Raymond Merritt Sn, age 68, died on 22 Febraary 2000, at his residence in Springfield, Delaware County, PA. He suffered from congestive heart failure and diabetes.

Ray was bom on 20 February 1932, in New York City. After graduation from The Lawrenceville School in 1950, he entered the Naval Academy as a member of the Class of 1954. He resigned from the Naval Academy in early 1953, and then graduated from Drexel Institute of Technology in 1957.

He was drafted into the Army and served on Dn Wemer von Braun's personal staff at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, AL. During the 1960s and 1970s, Ray was a sales manager for Aeroquip and Parker-Hannifin Corporations. A heart attack in 1973 forced him into early retirement from sales, but he soon eamed a degree in computer science and stayed active in his community. Ray devoted his time to the Hiawatha Council, Boy Scouts of America, his local church congregation and eventually his grandchildren. At thetimeof his death, he was vice president of the Board of Deacons at the First Presbyterian Church of Springfield.

He is survived by his wife, Barbara Shank Mertitt of Springfield, PA; daughter, Jane Merritt Faith of Philadelphia, PA; and son, Lieutenant Charies R. Mertitt Jn '85, USN (Ret.); and dieir families. Ray's remains were cremated and will be interted later in the spring in the Memorial Garden at the First Presbyterian Church of Springfield.

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RICHARD WILLIAM ELLIS '55 Richard W. Ellis, of New London, NH, died on 21 January 2000, after a long illness, at the age of 70. He graduated from Newton High School, Dartmouth College, Class of 1951, and die Naval Academy, Class of 1955.

Ellis taught at the Naval Academy and had as-

ARTHUR J. DESROSIERS JR. '61 his extraordinary academic achieveruents by seLieutenant Commander Arthur J. Desrosiers Jn, lection to, and the completion of, a mascer's deUSN (Ret.), of Hartford, CT, beloved husband of gree program in applied mathematics. He was Valeda Williams Desrosiers, died on Monday, 31 awarded that degree in 1969.

January 2000, at Hartford Hospital, at the age of 64.

Beyond his own achievements, Dick was an He was bom in Hartford, CT, the son of Amelia unselfish Classmate, teacher, friend and teammate.

Nielson Desrosiers and the late Arthur J. Desrosiers He was never too busy to help perhaps less gifted signments in BOSTON (CAG-1), WALDRON (DDSn He retired from the United States Navy after Classmates, whom he guided through the math699), JASON (AR-8), London, England (NavActs 26 years of service, and later retired from the State ematical maze he envisioned so clearly. Dick's UK and CinCUSNavEur), Portsmoudi Naval Ship- of North Carolina. He was a member of the VFW strength as an unofficial extra instraction teacher yard (production material superintendent), Viet- of Hartford Post 254 and a member of the VFW of was his ability to revise his instractional techniques nam, Armed Forces Staff College faculty, and CO Raleigh, NC, and past Commander of the Chapter or explanations when a Classmate would need DCASPRO Sanders in Nashua, NH. of Vietnam Veterans, of Raleigh. something extra to understand the course material.

He was a long-standing member and lay leader Besides his wife and mother, he leaves three As a friend, Dick was never boastful. He possessed at All Saints Church in Peterborough, NH, and at sons, Robert and David Desrosiers, both of Hart- that personal sense of humility so often associated St Andrew's Episcopal Church in New London, NH. ford, CT; Todd Desrosiers of San Diego, CA; with only the traly gifted and accomplished. Dick Ellis is survived by his wife of 45 years, Bar- daughten Mary Elizabeth Atif of Greensboro, NC; lived with dignity, honor and as a gentieman. bara Randall Ellis of New London, CT; daughter, the mother of his children, Betty Jane Gardine Dick was a surface warfare officer and retumed Pamela Averell of Goffstown, NH; two grand- Desrosiers of Greensboro, NC; a sister and brother- to sea following postgraduate school. He excelled daughters; and a sister, Charlotte Fowler of in-law, Charline and Frederick Kalman of Ventura, at sea as he had done during Academy and Naval Northport, NY. He was predeceased by a daugh- CA; stepson, Ernest Sam Williams of Lockemills, Postgraduate School days. His sea duty assignter, Kimberly Ann Ellis, in 1992.

ME; four grandchildren; several nieces, nephews, ments culminated with assignment to command grand-nieces, and grand-nephews.

BARBEY (FF-1088). AS his command tour drew to A memorial service was held on 3 Febraary 2000 a close, BARBEY was a most respected ship, espeFRANCIS JOSEPH MORAN '58 cially as she proudly displayed an alphabet of at Grace Episcopal Church in Hartford.

Commander Francis Joseph "Joe" Moran, USN In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be awards on her starboard bridge wing. Here again, (Ret.), who retired after 20 years as a planning of- made to a charity of the donor's choice. as a gentleman and completely unselfish commandficer in the Navy, died at home on 2 Febraary 2000, The News and Observer (Raleigh, NC) ing officer, Dick presented awards to his shipmates in Concord, CA. He had suffered from cancer for as he was about to be relieved.

3 February 2000 several months. A native of Greenwich, CT, Joe Following service retirement and the many sepahad Uved in Concord for 25 years. He was a former rations from his wife, Diane, and sons, Scott and chairman of the Concord Planning commission. His Andy, Dick worked for General Dynamics as a affiliations and hobbies included Sunrise Rotary, program manager With the imminent closure of RICHARD ALLEN GREGOR '61 golf and volunteering.

Captain Richard Allen Gregor, USN (Ret.), died General Dynamics in San Diego, Dick was offered Joe is survived by his wife of 20 years, Patricia; suddenly on Friday, 21 January 2000, at home in the opportunity to relocate to the golf courses of four daughters, Maureen Stevens of Vallejo, CA; Aberdeen, NC. The cause of death was identified Pinehurst, NC, as a program manager for Argonne Kelly Moran and Sandy Taylor (both of San Fran- as cardiac arthythmia.

National Laboratories. Here, he continued to excisco, CA), and Wendy Taylor-Hall of Oakland, Dick was bom on 18 June 1938, in Erie, PA, cel, all the while tempted by the lush greens and CA; two sons, Douglas and Robert Moran (both and grew up as a Navy Junior From Portsmouth, the broad fairways. In what Dick considered a long of San Jose, CA); three brothers, Richard Moran RI, he enlisted in the Navy preparatory school prior overdue career decision, he terminated his tenure of Nantucket Island, MA; Harold Moran of to entering the Naval Academy in July 1957, with as a program manager and retumed to the golf Framingham, MA; and John Moran of Derry, NH; the Class of 1961. During Academy days, Dick was course and to the academics of designing and makone sister, EUzabeth McGrath of Wappingers Falls, ing custom golf clubs for those wanting and able an avid golfer and tennis player It was this love of NY;fivegrandchildren, and one great-grandchild. golf that led to the melding of work and pleasure to afford his detailed and carefully balanced works Services were held on Tuesday, 8 Febraary 2000, in semi-retirement. Academics posed no serious of art. Of course, he availed himself to the courses at St. Agnes Church in Concord, CA. Burial was problems for Dick because of the diligence and as well. held on Wednesday, 9 Febraary, at San Joaquin ValDick is survived by his wife, Diane; son, Scott, efforts he placed in his course preparations and his ley National Cemetery in Santa Nella, CA. Memocompetitive attitude toward his studies. Later, while his wife, Holly, and a grandson, Riley; and his son, rial gifts may be sent to the Greenwich Boys and a student at the Naval Postgraduate School, in the Andy. In accordance with his wishes, Dick's creGirls Club, 4 Horseneck Ln., Greenwich, CT 06830. electronics engineering program, Dick continued mains will be scattered at sea from a United States Navy ship.

Don Grinnell '61

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